FAT 16 or FAT 32

[Actor]

I have an old PC with Windows 98. The HD is 8.4 Gig with four partitions of 2.1 Gig each. Only the C: partition has anything on it. There are no files on the machine that I want to keep.

I want to make this a DOS 6.22 machine. I had planed to repartition the drive with fdisk, but it occurs to me that I could just reformat C: and install DOS. For this to work the disk has to be FAT 16, not FAT 32, right? Is there any way to determine if the disk is FAT 16? Or will this approach even work? Should I just start over with fdisk?

 

[Glenn9999]

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[Guthro]

The simple way to see what file system the drive uses is to run windows and get a directory tree up showing C:, D: etc and right click the drive icon and select properties. On the General tab it states what FAT version is used.

Hope this helps.

Guthro.