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Clone USB Flash Drive with FreeDos

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I want clone USB Flash Drive with installed FreeDos. If i use similar USB Flahs Drive all ok. If i use for reserving and restore not similar USB Flash Drive, then OS startup i see "FreeDOS FAT Kernel GO! And system don't start.

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if i reserving from Flash 128 MB and restore to Flash 1 Gb, all ok, but if i reserving from 1 Gb and restore to 128 i see "Kernel Go!"

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Hello Konstantin,

I will do everything possible in order to resolve the issue you experience.

The source of the issue is changing of the boot sector location after restoring to a flash drive with resizing the image in order to fit the size of the destination flash drive. Eventually it explains why you don’t get the above mentioned error message after transferring the system to the same size flash drive.

In order to solve the issue you should reactivate boot loader on newly restored flash drive. Check FreeDOS web site for more information how to perform it.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Thank you.