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BootAble – FreeDOS boot testing freeware
To obtain direct, low-level access to a system's mass storage drives, SpinRite runs under a GRC-customized version of FreeDOS which has been modified to add compatibility with all file systems. In order to run SpinRite it must first be possible to boot FreeDOS.
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this works for me
1.41 MB file on MEGA
replace the spinrite.exe demo (here be dragons) with your version...if it works
Your image does work though I'm at a loss as to why (compared to what I'd tried.) I had pretty much the same thing right down to the size of the RAM disk chosen. Maybe it's the memory manager -- I can't recall if I used the same one in any of my gyrations of testing...
Sooooo, it seems like something changed from Spinrite 6.0 in whatever 6.1 is doing fairly early on in the code such that it now doesn't like being run from the environment of the 'memdisk' RAM disk. It'd be nice to get figured out eventually, but the additional XMS ramdisk is an easy enough workaround for the forseeable future until we're off of DOS
Thanks millQ for figuring out a solution.
no problem.
It is also possible to use TFTPD32/64.exe +
grub4dos...
GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB - Browse /GRUB4DOS/grub4dos 0.4.4 at SourceForge.net
sourceforge.net
then SpinRite could be started from A:
menu.lst
title SpinRite6.1
map --mem /boot/spin61PXE.img (fd0)
map --hook
chainloader (fd0)+1
rootnoverify (fd0)dos-utils/network/pxeboot/raspberry_pi_configuration_script.txt at master · cml37/dos-utils
github.com
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