I have WinXP and I want to play dosgames on my comp, and i found out i wanted to make a fat partition and put Dos on it. but how do I make it bootable? Does it have to be a primary partition? cause right now it's logical. and what do I do next? just copy all the stuff from a bootable Dos-floppy over to the partition? and does it have to be FAT, or can i make it FAT32?

To make life easier, use a third party software such as BootMagic or System Commander, as you will find it difficult to try to create a DOS partition and boot off that, without special tools, DOS need to be on the Primary and FAT16, and with XP installed already, you wont get very far.

There is a better way. And a simpler way. Keep your XP disk as the Primary Master. Add a small disk as the Primary Slave. Make it FAT-16. Create a DOS 6.22 Bootdisk, with all the files on it you need. When you want to boot WinXP, boot w/o a floppy. When you want DOS 6.22, boot with the bootdisk. Since DOS 6.22 cannot see the FAT-32 or NTFS Primary Master disk, the first hard disk it will see is the small FAT-16 hard disk you installed as your primary slave. It will also recognize this FAT-16 partition as C:. You will be able to play your DOS games as they were meant to be played. If you boot to XP, you'll see BOTH disks. I use this setup at home to boot Win98 and DOS 6.22. -Doug