Thanks for the quick reply, Ralf. I have a work around, which did the trick. I just created four partitions, each less than 32gb on the stick, and freedos is happy with that.
Now all I have to do is decide if I'm sticking with Microsoft Works, or if I'll go back to Wordperfect 5.1 and my distraction-free writing machine will be finished! Oh yeah, and I have to uninstall the games. :-) On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, 03:23 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I installed freedos on my IBM Thinkpad T43 and I installed a usb > > driver, which works. Sort of. > > > > I can access a 2gb usb stick, which is formatted to FAT32, and that's > > great, but I want to use a different stick. > > > > This is where the problems begin. It's a 128gb stick. If I find a way > > to create a FAT32 partition to use the whole space do we know if > > freedos would be able to handle that size? Or is there another file > > system I could use? > No, you definitely can NOT use a different file system. FAT[12,16,32] is > the only file system that FreeDOS understands. > I had never had the need to use such large partitions with (any) DOS, > and don't use it for anything else, as it is limited to 4GB file size too. > > Theoretically, FAT32 could handle up to 2TB in partition size, while > newer Windows (and some other OS) limit it to 32GB. Not sure if a peek > in the sources would reveal what a limitation under FreeDOS for FAT32 > partitions would be... > > > Ralf > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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