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exFAT reader for DOS (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 15.05.2010, 13:40

> In MBR you can have defined only 0 or 1 extended partitions. Not more as
> MS-DOS and Windows would not see it. (not sure about FreeDOS)

Yes, dos/win wouldn't see them. May be other OS.

> But inside extended partitions you can define another ones so you create a
> LINKED LIST of extended partitions.

I think you mean logical drives under extended partition. In fact it is a chain list...

Now efdir (tom's version) displays sizes of all my driver OK (I use ext. part.)

exfat 10
MBR partition table
0: 80 06 0000003F 494Mb
1: 00 05 000F717F 7538Mb
DOS extended partition table at F717F
0: 00 06 0000003F 494Mb
1: 00 05 000F717F 988Mb
DOS extended partition table at 1EE2FE
0: 00 06 0000003F 988Mb
1: 00 05 002E547D 988Mb
DOS extended partition table at 3DC5FC
0: 00 06 0000003F 988Mb
1: 00 05 004D377B 980Mb
DOS extended partition table at 5CA8FA
0: 00 06 0000003F 980Mb
1: 00 05 006BDBB8 1953Mb
DOS extended partition table at 7B4D37
0: 00 06 0000003F 1953Mb
1: 00 05 00A8E571 1953Mb
DOS extended partition table at B856F0
0: 00 06 0000003F 1953Mb
1: 00 05 00E5EF2A 180Mb
DOS extended partition table at F560A9
0: 00 06 0000003F 180Mb
exFAT partitions not found!

Original version displayed only this:

efdir 10
MBR partition table
0: 80 06 0000003F 494Mb
1: 00 05 000F717F 7538Mb
DOS extended partition table
0: 00 06 0000003F 494Mb
1: 00 05 000F717F 988Mb
2: 00 00 00000000 0Mb
3: 00 00 00000000 0Mb
2: 00 0C 00FB0400 105418Mb
3: 00 82 0DD959BF 1019Mb
exFAT partitions not found!

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Complete thread:

• exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 03.05.2010, 15:09 (Announce)
  • exFAT reader for DOS - Zyzzle, 04.05.2010, 00:52
    • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 04.05.2010, 01:28
      • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 04.05.2010, 01:36
        • exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 04.05.2010, 09:30
      • exFAT reader for DOS - Zyzzle, 04.05.2010, 04:43
        • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 04.05.2010, 13:14
          • exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 04.05.2010, 13:22
    • exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 04.05.2010, 09:37
      • exFAT reader for DOS - Laaca, 04.05.2010, 10:47
        • exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 04.05.2010, 11:55
          • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 04.05.2010, 13:07
            • exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 04.05.2010, 13:27
              • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 04.05.2010, 13:51
          • exFAT reader for DOS - tom, 13.05.2010, 17:42
            • exFAT reader for DOS - avoskov, 14.05.2010, 16:40
              • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 15.05.2010, 01:12
                • exFAT reader for DOS - Laaca, 15.05.2010, 07:59
                  • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 15.05.2010, 13:40
                  • exFAT reader for DOS - RayeR, 15.05.2010, 18:30
            • exFAT reader for DOS - Richard, 18.04.2022, 13:28