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: : > Steven Wabik wrote:
: > > my pc does not seem to support formating in fat16. what now?
: > > i have a windows 98 installation CD.
: > > how do i take MSDOS 7 off of it and turn it into a stand alone OS?
: >
: > I would suggest that instead of repartitioning and reformatting your
: > hard disk (an error prone operation), you use Virtual PC (a free
: > download from Microsoft). You can download a Windows 98 (or MS-DOS)
: > boot disk and use that to create a FAT32 partition inside of Virtual PC.
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: The OP does not want to load WinXP - he wants his word
: processor to start from DOS.
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This is a lot of wasted effort.
Who would want a word processor if you can't print. I haven't seen any
printer that would print from Dos for several years.