Thanks, Eric, I think that little roundup covers the question.
On 2/25/2016 7:48 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> most DOS programs do not care at all what type of drive you use.
>
> Only disk manipulation matters: For example CHKDSK does not, but
> the alternative DOSFSCK does support fat32.
Hi John,
most DOS programs do not care at all what type of drive you use.
Only disk manipulation matters: For example CHKDSK does not, but
the alternative DOSFSCK does support fat32. Support in FORMAT &
FDISK is complete. Support in DEFRAG is very limited. What else
would you like to know about
Whatever issues I have found have been totally unrelated to FAT32 (well
today, I found an installer that wouldn't install to a FAT32 partition, but
that was a rare find); most issues I have are of the Freecom variety I have
to LOADFIX way too many programs, but .082 fixes that for my most stubborn
I haven't looked at this question for a long time so it probably bears
asking again.
I have been using 2GB FAT16 partitions because of my recollection that
some of the FreeDOS programs didn't support FAT32 properly. I'm sorry I
don't have notes on the particulars, just a recollection of my
