Re: [Freedos-user] legacy ATA support

[Bill H. <wlh...@at...>]

dmccunney:
Note that says "installation disk".  That means you can potentially
start an install of Vista/7 from a USB drive.  It does not mean you
can create a portable Windows installation that will *run* from a
thumbdrive.

Me: If I can copy files to the flash drive and get to a "DOS prompt" and run a program such as a firmware update I'm happy.  I don't need a portable Windows installation.  Even the installation disk allows you to get to the C:\>. My guess though is that it is a DOS program, in which case I expect the computer to freeze before bricking the hard drive.

I can probably do without.  It doesn't really seem worth all this effort.  I like to keep everything up to date.