This query is probably for someone with a long memory or who has been around PCs for a long time. I am assembling a dual-boot (using PowerQuest's BootMagic) Win98SE/MS-DOS 6.22 system on an unused Dell Dimension 4500 platform I had to run some old software I have and want to use that doesn't run well on XP-Pro and later operating systems. It seemed to me that to have some file access compatibility and versatility, I needed to format the system's HD as FAT 16 as MS-DOS will not access FAT 32 disk partitions. When I went to create an extended DOS partition to put the applications and files into, I found that MS-DOS appears to want to restrict me to a maximum HD size of about 8 gB even though I have a 30 gB HD on the machine. Is it correct that a FAT 16 HD is limited to 8 gB? Did anybody ever come up with a way to exceed that size limit? If so, where might I obtain an application (presumably unapproved by Microsoft) that would let me do that? Thanks, in advance, for any advice, guidance, or directions to a tutorial on the subject.
