#281 FDISK doesn't create partitions.

[Vadim Jh]

Problem:
After creating partitions with FDISK and restarting, the old partition table is displayed on the real HDD.

Steps:

1. Downloaded FD12FULL.zip
2. Written .img file using rufus to 8gb USB pendrive from Windows 10.
3. Inserted Plop Boot Manager diskette to drive A at P4 machine with USB and 40Gb harddrive containing 1 FAT16 primary partition with DOS 6.22 installed; with NTFS partition with broken Windows XP installation starting at 10 gb of space. With free space at 2-10 gb.
4. Inserted the FreeDOS FD12FULL USB drive to USB port
5. Booted from floppy to PLOP
6. Booted FreeDOS installer from USB pendrive
7. Cancelled the installation
8. Started FDISK
9. Changed to disk 2 showing the existing FAT16 and NTFS partitions
10. Tried using both fat32 support enabled Y and N variants
11. Created a new Primary partition of 2000 mb (FDISK showed that is has created drive E:, but E: is already the real CD drive detected during boot)
12. Made the new partition active (or skipped this step other time)
13. FDISK asked to reboot
14. Rebooted PC
15. Booted from PLOP
16. Booted from USB
17. Exited the setup
18. Entered FDISK

Actual result:
The old partition table was seen, although FDISK asked to reboot. Fat 16 and NTFS partitions were intact. FAT16|32 partition was not created.

Expected result:
New partition created, active, can be formatted to fat32, selectable for installation, while keeping the original 1st dos intact.

PC:
P4 1600 mhz
IDE: Seagate 40gb
USB1 support
FDD drive.
128 mb RAM
ATI Mach64VT
ABI AU10 snd card
Realtek 1839c netcard.
PS\2 keyboard
USB mouse with PS\2 emulation in BIOS.
CD drive - broken, connected, unbootable.

[Anthony Williams]

PLoP can only mount the USB as read-only, so it won't let you create new partitions. You'll probably want to use a lite Linux distro (old Puppy?) to create partitions there instead.

[Vadim Jh]

I'm not fdisking any USB drive. I'm fdisking real HDD on IDE controller. You are saying that only USB is mounted as read only. What mode IDE HDD is mounted? How can installer install if IDE HDD is mounted read only? I don't see logic in your explanation. Are you sure you did understand the configuration of my PC fully? Is FDISK patched not to do its work when booted from USB even for IDE HDD?

[Jim Hall]

I think this was fixed in the same issue described in bug #300. I'm closing this one as fixed.

If this is not actually fixed, please re-open a new bug.