Hacking DIOS MIOS trouble (not lite)

[powerfox]

I have already installed the needed Dios Mios wad (the one for usb loading) and I have the dios mios loader, but whenever i try to format my flash drive (2 gigs) to fat32 with 32k clusters the formatting has an error at 99% and says "the cluster size is too big" or something along those lines. Is it just my flash drive is too small? or is it because I was using diskmgmt.msc? Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[PsyBlade]

yes its to small for fat32 with 32KiB clusters
try 16KiB instead

 

[Catastrophic]

yes its to small for fat32 with 32KiB clusters
try 16KiB instead

Doesn't DIOS MIOS only support 32kb klusters? Or is it just me?

 

[Maxternal]

Yeah, the drive is too small for FAT32 to do 32k clusters but DM is compatible with "up to" 32k cluster size.
I'm not sure if it works with FAT16 but if you're REALLY set on 32k clusters, I think that would be the only way.

EDIT : never mind.
found these on the GoogleCode page :

- Assure that your HDD is formatted with FAT32, no other FS is supported.
- Only cluster sizes 32KB or less are supported.

Format your USB device to FAT32 with 32KB cluster size or less, anything higher is not supported.

Sorry, I was just basing it off of DML which I understand DOES do fat16 . . . but then again, it also does real disk loading, SD loading, and 64k clusters, none of which DM is capable of.

 

[PsyBlade]

I honestly don't know
the page itself says 32KiB or lower
but everyone here says 32KiB only

try it
fat16 with 32KiB might be worth a shot too

if its indeed fat32 32KiB only I think I can whip up some voodoo to make your stick use that

 

[Maxternal]

if its indeed fat32 32KiB only I think I can whip up some voodoo to make your stick use that

Yeah, like convince it has a 4gb partition with all the sectors above 2gb marked as bad
EDIT : I'm sure you're thinking or something simpler to implement, though. (I don't really know enough of what I'm talking about. Just ignore me.)

 

[PsyBlade]

Actually that was almost exactly the plan I had in mind
(only that you don't need to go all the way to 4GB instead 2.1 GB should to do it)

I don't think there's another way

I know it works in linux (which I consider a bug)
might do in windows too

 

[powerfox]

Thank you so much! It worked perfectly!

 

[Maxternal]

Thank you so much! It worked perfectly!

Just curious, are you referring to the 16k clusters or the fat16?
(I'm assuming the first but it would be interesting to know.)

 

[powerfox]

FAT16 with 32k clusters

 

[Maxternal]

Actually that was almost exactly the plan I had in mind
(only that you don't need to go all the way to 4GB instead 2.1 GB should to do it)

I don't think there's another way

I know it works in linux (which I consider a bug)
might do in windows too

In windows I wouldn't know exactly how. When you said "Voodoo" I thought it was something like going into a hex editor and manually rewriting the partition table or something but then manually mark half the disk bad cluster by cluster.

The reason why that occurred to me was on a really old computer and hard drive (the BIOS where you have to manually set the sectors and heads and such) I accidentally put in the wrong information and then formatted and ran a Scandisk and it did just that, once it got to the end of the real disk it just started marking everything as bad clusters.

 

[PsyBlade]

basically create the fs in a 2.1 gb file and hexedit it to mark the clusters as bad (probably script the editing)
but hexediting the partition table instead of using a file should work too