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posted by Doug E-mail, 13.08.2012, 08:00

NU 8.0 was, indeed, the final version for FAT16 DOS/Win3. DOS 6.x support began with NU 7, so that would be the *minimum* version i'd suggest.

As NU progressed to Win9x support, they still included a few pure-DOS utilities (needed for the 'rescue' diskette facility, which of necessity, booted up in DOS). For example, the NU 2003 that i have contains FAT32-capable versions of Disk Doctor, Disk Editor, UnErase, UnFormat, and Rescue which run fine under real DOS. (They are backwards compatible with FAT16 and FAT12 as well.)

What Ron said about 'weird extensions' is often the case, but sometimes when you get stuff from 'abandonware' sites, the downloaded files contain archived versions of the actual installation diskettes. Often, you need to re-create the original diskette(s) from the downloaded archive, because the diskette files may themselves be archived/compressed (hence, the 'weird' filename extensions). Then the install/setup program on diskette must be run to properly decomprerss/install from diskette(s) to the hard drive. Somewhat messy... but those were the classic days of DOS and diskette distribution.... :-)

- Doug B.

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