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FAT32 support for DOS_5?
Name: mr_robot Date: March 5, 2003 at 13:46:21 Pacific OS: DOS CPU/Ram: PI/64MB
Comment:
Has anyone come out with a patch yet for MS-DOS 5.0 that would allow it to read / boot from a FAt32 partition?
Name: k_semler Date: March 5, 2003 at 14:44:02 Pacific
Reply:
A patch to read FAT32 partitions can be found here. But there is no patch that will enable DOS 5.0 to boot from a FAT32 partition. If you want this ability, your best bet is to strip MS-DOS 7.10 out of Windows 95b-98SE.
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Response Number 2
Name: Wengier Date: March 6, 2003 at 05:16:14 Pacific
Reply:
Try my MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk,with LOGO,LFN(Long File Names),FAT32,NTFS,CD-ROM,USB drives and large disk/memory support:
http://newdos.yginfo.net/dosware/mdos71bd.zip
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Response Number 3
Name: lol Date: March 28, 2003 at 08:54:28 Pacific
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fat32 or ntfs what is batter i need help obout this at the formating i chose ntfs but im thinking is fat32 batter that ntfs
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Response Number 4
Name: RoadRunner Date: April 28, 2003 at 05:00:52 Pacific
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well NTFS was developed for Widnows NT for security resons. If you have have a dual boot system and you have say win98 on a fat32 partition and you also have an ntf partition. when you boot in win 98 you wont be able to see the NTFS partition. NTFS is mor secure if you are running anything above windows 2000 pro server etc. use NTFS otherwise use fat32.
Summary: Versions upto MS-DOS 6.22 can omly be used on FAT16 Drives. If you want to use FAT32 you will need to extract MS-DOS 7.0 from Windows 95. This can be done by use of a bootdisk the contents of C:\Windo...
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