Re: 64HDD?

Nick @ 64HDD wrote:

Many of today's PCs still will boot to MSDOS with the approriately
formatted CDROM, flash-drive, or even floppy. A flash-drive (FAT32
formatted) is recommended as it allows read/write operations in the
case if your PC's HD is NTFS formatted (and therefore not be visible
outside of Windows). Only M type processors have a problem with 64HDD
because their timing is fluctuating (power management reasons I
suspect).

You can use a FAT32 USB drive filled with stuff from a Windows ME or
Windows 98 boot disk, if your PC BIOS allows booting from USB. MS-DOS
itself doesn't handle FAT32. But the DOS part of ME or 98 will run
pretty much any MS-DOS software ever made.

But of course most USB sticks with a capacity of 2.0 GB or less use
old-age FAT16 and work perfectly with real MS-DOS -- again as long as
BIOS implements booting from USB, since obviously DOS itself doesn't
know anything about USB because it predates USB.

--
Linards Ticmanis
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