Hi Tom,

Don't get me wrong I am not complaining about mdwbeta.

Quite the opposite mwbeta helped me a lot because I have no physical floppy
and burning CDs is very wastefull of CDs (even using CD-RW I only get about
10 reformats before my burning software gives an error and refuses to reformat).

mwbeta helped me a lot.
So THANKS for mwbeta.

>>The main focus for the next version of mdwbeta is full HD emulation booting (from FAT32)

I don't understand why you say emulation booting!!!

Most modern BIOSes support booting from a USB device (That USB device however
has to support being booted from).

After booting from a USB device that device is the BOOT DRIVE that can be read and written
thru the BIOS.

I have partitioned a 1GB bootable USB memory stick into two 512Meg partitions, after
installing a IBM/MS-DOS system on the 1st partition (without a USB Driver), formatting
the second partition (with FAT-16) and rebooting into BIOS the situation was:

- The BIOS offered me a choice of boot device that included BOTH of the USB partitions.

- Having booted from the 1st partition DOS came up with the 1st USB partition as C:
and everything worked as expected on just the 1st partition.
However I could not address the 2nd partition.

After I installed (and defined it should be loaded) the USBD.SYS driver and rebooting
DOS I had access to the second partition (as the D disk).

The utility that came with my bootable USB Memory (from PEAK)
provides:
- Format as 1 partition
- Divide the memory into 2 (and ONLY 2) partitions

Currently I am analysing the MBR on USB stick because I would like to be able to have
the option of more partitions (e.g. set up a 1.44M partition and use your mdwbeta to that partition
and have a DOSBoot partition and to have a boot partition with my own Hypervisor/VMM/SVM OS etc.).

I use DOS because I am too lazy to write a Windows Device Driver to directly read and write sectors
on the USB stick and I like the security I have with DOS on my system (my real hard disks are
SATA disks and I have NO SATA support in the DOS machine that I setup so I cannot clobber
my read hard disks).

Regards
Dave.