Re: [Freedos-user] chkdsk for fat32!

[Karen L. <kle...@sh...>]

why? worked fine on the 486 I use to have.  Gosh I have been running 
this package on my machines for years.


On Sat, 19 Apr 2014, Eric Auer wrote:

>
> Hi! Note that this thread is about a PC-XT computer:
> In FreeDOS, only the 32-bit DOSFSCK supports FAT32.
> Our 16-bit CHKDSK does not. Yet only CHKDSK can run
> on the old PC-XT, which interestingly has an ISA IDE
> harddisk controller with LBA capable BIOS on it :-)
> The FAT32-enabled CHKDSK of Win9x MS DOS 7.x would
> probably not run on PC-XT hardware.
>
> Eric
>
>> I am running ms dos 7.1 ish, an augmented package which includes
>> chkdsk and some  other extra utilities.
>> I am not running freedos at all, which is why i hinted it must
>> be a problem specific to freedos, not to Dos itself.
>
>
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