In anticipation of my system getting here that I'll be loading DOS 6.22 on, I've been searching the web for DOS freeware to use on it. I've downloaded some programs, mostly games, and wrote to floppy so I'd have everything ready to go when it gets here. Now, I'm thinking I may have made a bunch of floppies that DOS won't be able to read because they were made using XP. The disks are IBM formatted, so I didn't do anything but copy the files to them. Did I just make myself a bunch of unusable disks for DOS?

Hi Kevin, There was a thred on a similar subj in recent weeks. Seems that 9x /XP write [and look for] a media descriptor byte which DOS does not write. So in some cases, a DOS formatted disk will not read in XP. But I think your floppies will read OK in DOS. Easy to find out. Boot on a DOS floppy, put in one of your DOS SW floppies and do a dir. Better yet: copy /b . nul

Thanks M2G. I booted to DOS by floppy and was able to read all files on the disks I made. I wouldn't have thought of that. I feel better now. :-)