DOS Partition

Hello Sir, I have using Windows 2000 Professional Machine. Formated in NTFS and loaded in C: My harddisk space is 20GB partition C: size is 10GB. Remaining 10GB is unpartitioned. I want load MSDOS 6.22 version to remaining partition. How ...




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#175869 - 11/14/06 12:01 PM DOS Partition
ajkannan83 Offline
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Registered: 02/26/06
Posts: 47
Hello Sir,

I have using Windows 2000 Professional Machine.

Formated in NTFS and loaded in C:

My harddisk space is 20GB

partition C: size is 10GB. Remaining 10GB is unpartitioned.

I want load MSDOS 6.22 version to remaining partition.

How to create it.

That means

System displays the boot menu

"Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional"
"MS-DOS"

if i am select window 2000 professional the system will be loaded in windows 2000 Prof or select MS-DOS the system will be loaded in MS-DOS.

How to create boot.ini file or any idea please reply.

Thank You
A.Kannan

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#175870 - 11/14/06 01:06 PM Re: DOS Partition
DosFreak Online   content
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Loc: Georgia
You can't unless you use a boot partition manager to hide your NTFS C:.

MS-DOS requires to be install on your "C:" parition.

Also MS-DOS 6.22 only supports FAT16 which can only supports 2GB partitions. You'll need FAT32 (only supported on 95b+) to support larger partitions.

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#175876 - 11/14/06 04:55 PM Re: DOS Partition
jmmijo Offline
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Registered: 05/29/02
Posts: 1486
Isn't there a compatible version of DOS that does support larger partition sizes and long filename support ?!?

But of course MS-DOS only supports FAT16 partitions smile

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#175877 - 11/14/06 05:39 PM Re: DOS Partition
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You could install 9x and just delete the Windows dir I guess...or download the ripped version of DOS 7x off the net (Which is illegal).


FreeDOS may support FAT32.

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