Let's start over... While W0rm is correct that all Microsoft DOSes above 6.22 do support FAT 32...There is no real setup for these programs. So if you are trying to install DOS 6.22 on a FAT 32 drive then it won't work. Most likely it will want to delete the partition on the drive and repartition it to FAT 16. You have to be very careful about installing DOS 6.22 because it can callously delete your partitions without much of a warning unless you pay close attention to what the setup program is telling you. To create an MS DOS 7.10 installation do this: Download a windows 98 bootdisk (get it from www.bootdisk.com, which really links to W0rm's site). Boot the pc with the diskette, issue this command: sys c: a: This will essentially 'install' the minimal components of MS DOS 7.10 which is command.com io.sys and msdos.sys, it will also prepare the boot sector of the hard drive so it's bootable. Create a directory called DOS on the hard drive. Next get a hold of a windows 98 or 95 installation and copy everything from the c:\windows\command directory to the dos directory on your hard drive. Next grab a windows 95 or 98 CD from somewhere and copy all the files from the tools\oldmsdos directory to the same DOS directory of your hard drive. Now create a file with edit.com called autoexec.bat with these contents: path=c:\dos;c:\ This file should reside in the root directory of your hard drive. Now create a file config.sys with these contents: device=c:\dos\himem.sys dos=high This file should also reside in the root directory of your hard drive. Now reboot your computer and you have a DOS 7.10 installation complete with FAT 32 support!! Good luck! -Michael

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Look if you have Windows 98se installed you ALREADY have MS-DOS 7.10 as well! Or if you have no OS installed use the Windows 95B or 98 Bootdisk and System format your drive to get DOS SIMPLE Also as an addition to michael advice above. Get hold of a copy of OLDDOS.exe which contains all the MS-DOS 5 & 6 commands left out of 7 Bootdisks & OLDDOS.exe can be found at: http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk

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if you wish to call me a fool, then ok. i noticed you lot forgot about the eXtended Operating System Loader project, namly, a program that installs into your hdd to give the option of booting from a specific partition, try it at www.xosl.org. i use it for swaping between win98,win3.11, and nt 3.51. hope this helps. . .

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If you plan on using fdisk to make a FAT 16 partition use a 16 bits OS like MS-DOS 6.22. These 16 bits systems don't operate on a 32 bits FAT 32 partition.

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