If you’re doing this from a Windows machine, you’ll need to use DISKPART to blow away the current partition on the USB stick and create a smaller one.
I was able to get everything working with an 8 GB USB stick, using the instructions found at the following site ( ). If you plan on reading/writing to a USB stick and/or external hard drive, you’ll need to make sure that it meets the above requirements (FAT16 and less than 2 GB in size). Here’s the last entry in my “getting things to work in a DOS machine running in VMWare Player” series: how to get a DOS machine running inside VMWare Player to recognize a USB flash drive.īefore starting, here’s a quick DOS refresher: natively, DOS will not read FAT32 drive partitions, and FAT16 partitions (also simply known as FAT) had a 2 GB partition limit size.
