I just installed FreeDos 1.0 on my laptop. It works fine. However, I got fat 32 on the 2 gig drive as one partition. It seems that the disk utils like chkdsk, defrag only work for fat 16, or at least that is the message I get. Should I reformat as fat16, or just the fat32. Also if I go with fat16, what is the max partition size I can go with, and will the long file setup still work.

FAT32 uses disk space more efficiently, because the cluster size is small. However it is not accessible with any standalone version of MS-DOS, PC-DOS or DR-DOS. However, FreeDOS and Enhanced DR-DOS can "understand" FAT32. FAT16 is accessible to almost any version of DOS, WINDOWS. (Only the very old versions of DOS like MS-DOS 2.11) cannot see FAT16 Generally the maximum partition size for FAT16 is 2GB. However, FreeDOS can format a FAT16 partition upto 4GB. Such a partition can be accessed only with (1) FreeDOS (2) Windows NT4 and upwards (i.e. 2000 and XP) do not know about Vista (3) Enhanced DR-DOS By the way, i would like to know what you hope to do with FreeDOS. Is it going to be used as a standalone OS? my signature does not look like this

It will be the only OS I plan for this computer. As my plans with the computer. I will just use to to read some pdf's, and off line html, do some spreadsheet stuff, play some mp3's if I can get it to work. I have another machine for internet stuff. So as I understand it from your message, going to fat16 would allow chkdsk and defrag to work, and I wouldn't actually lose anything, as 2 gigs is actually way to much anyways ;) I wish I didn't toss my copies of "Clash of Steel" and "Age of Rifles"