DOS ain't dead

I haven't used DOS since the 1990's but I had a spare Intel i5 computer so I decided to install FreeDOS on it and load up my old Clipper 5.2 which I used to love programming with. The computer has a 1TB hard drive that I formatted in FAT32. FreeDOS installed fine and seemed to work pretty much like MS-DOS. When I tried to install Clipper 5.2 however, I got an error message stating “You do not appear to have the minimum access rights to Drive C: which is required for installation.”

I have never seen an error like that in DOS before. Anyone have any thoughts on what would cause this or anyone have a fix for it? I would really like to get Clipper working again.


Any help is very much appreciated.Thanks.

> I have never seen an error like that in DOS before. Anyone have any
> thoughts on what would cause this or anyone have a fix for it? I would
> really like to get Clipper working again.

need run debugger ...

For me it is looks like overflow, when calculate free space
or try work with network api.

PS: I have "Clipper 5.2 Demo" distro box, but have no time for databases.

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Thank you for the response. I guess I may have to partition the drive and reinstall FreeDOS again. If I remember correctly, I can only have 4 partitions on the drive. I'll see if that helps.

Thanks again.

PS: I also have Clipper 5.3 which I purchased in 1993 but v5.3 had some problems that caused the program to crash periodically.

Partitioned the 1TB drive into 4 partitions, the first with a size of 1GB and the rest divided into 310GB each. I then installed FreeDOS again and then I was able to install Clipper 5.0 successfully. Many thanks for the help.