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Not a bootable disk error (Users)

posted by glennmcc  , North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 31.05.2020, 04:26

> > I have a drive formatted FAT32 and I wanted to install MS-DOS 6.22 on
> it.
>
> Not really related to your problem but: MS-DOS version 6.xx doesn't support
> FAT32, not even if you manage to boot it. FAT32 is supported by MS-DOS
> version 7.10 level kernels.

Quite correct....
for MS-DOS v6.22, you'll need to format that HDD partition as FAT16

And of-course, no larger than... 2,147,483,647 bytes (2 GiB – 1)

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Complete thread:

• Not a bootable disk error - Columbo, 30.05.2020, 21:06
  • Not a bootable disk error - ecm, 30.05.2020, 21:49
    • Not a bootable disk error - glennmcc, 31.05.2020, 04:26
      • Not a bootable disk error - DosWorld, 31.05.2020, 15:27