Re: DOS and Harddrive Capacity

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"Jim Richards" <jimrichards@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Please check http://learn.to/quote/ and stop top posting!

Thank you Stefan, for your comments BUT I must take exception to your
statement "No, you ain't using XP anything if you boot DOS from a floppy."
Sir, this is my sixth PC which I built from scratch, piece by piece. The
only OS installed is XP Pro

Disconnect your hard disk (or just all IDE/ATA/SATA devices; except
your LS-120/LS-240, if your floppy happens to be this kind of EIDE device).
Can you still boot XP? No! But you can boot ANY OS from floppy.
So your question has NOTHING to do with XP or even Windows.

Or boot any random Linux LiveCD. You still have XP installed, but thats
completely irrelevant.

and I do boot to DOS using my System Floppy Disk from Win 98SE.
Maybe I am using incorrect terminology when I say I boot to DOS.

No, it's just the inappropriate group for your (well known) DOS problem.
Even if you'd create your DOS boot floppy from XP itself (yes, it can
do that, you'll get a rudimentary Win ME boot floppy) its the wrong group.

What I actually do is boot to A:\ where I run the FDISK program. Maybe
this isn't DOS. It certainly is not DOS 6.22 and I thought it was DOS 7.0
but maybe I am wrong. Anyhow, if you can set me straight on this I would
appreciate it very much. I used DOS (Versions thru 6.22) for many years
before I embraced Windows. Have a good day, Jim

Type "ver" at the prompt when you have booted from that disk.
You shall see something like "DOS 7.1 .... 2222".

Stefan

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