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posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 29.12.2022, 19:32

> Interestingly, I can install MS-DOS 7.1 via CD onto a 700 GB FAT32 MBR par
> style partition - but I cannot boot from it. The spinning hard drive
> capacity is 700 GB.


This is a guess only, but 128 sectors per cluster might be something that MS-DOS 7.1 is unable to digest.

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> Also, from my CD MS-DOS 7.1 install, IO.sys, MSDOS.sys and some other
> files are missing

perhaps they're just "hidden"?

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