What i need help with today is is it possible to use a disk with larger than 8Gb with dos 6.22 because the system im trying to setup is gonna have lots of dos games and lots of snes/sega games all emulated under dos the problem is that the projected size of what needs to go onto this machine is something like 9+Gb the system is also gonna have a NTFS partition with windows 2000 on the end for ease of transfer and other stuff thanks for any help

FAT16 partitions--the kind dos 6.22 can use--have a maximum size of 2 gig. So the only way to have 6.22 on a drive larger than that is to partition it with a primary dos partition of 2 gig and several 2 gig logical drives in the extended partition. If you're not married to 6.22 you may want to try dos 7.1 if you can find a download site. I think it's a jury-rigged dos from win 95 plus some other utilities. It's FAT32 capable. There's other non MS dos versions that are FAT32 capable also.

Thanks for the help im not particuarly married to 6.22 but its the only one that i own but i might go try 7.1 And the 8Gb limit i was talking about is that fdisk only sees the drive im using as an 8Gb hdd instead of its full 160Gb size

You don\t need hunt for MSDOS 7.x, You can download FreeDOS 1.0 for free which include native FAT32 support for a long time... BTW if you use FAT16, the extended partition should be limited under 8,4GB boundary otherwise you don\t see all logical drives on ext. partition.

Get a 98se boot disk: The 8G may be a BIOS issue. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

There is NO MS-DOS 7.1. You have to use the DOS underpinnings of Windows 98. Search Engines Are Your Friends ☺ Morpheus: There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path. "The Matrix"

... there is no spoon (either) It's a convention, and less of a mouthful "the system is also gonna have a NTFS partition with windows 2000 on the end for ease of transfer" Uh, sure - of course it will If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly --Donald Rumsfeld