Considering adding FREEDOS - Here's my Plan - Please Advise!

[Frank-0-Video]

Greetings ....

I am considering using FREEDOS to run some old programs. I understand that a bootable FREEDOS CD can run on my current desktop, which incidentally uses Win XP-32 Home-SP3, has an AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 2.50-ghz processor w/3.25-gb ram, plus a 465-GB hard drive (about 80% free space, at present).

To hold and execute all my old programs, I'm thinking about installing a 2nd hard drive of 250-gb in size, which I could re-partition into two equal halves of 125-gb or four equal quarters of 62.50-gb each. Unless someone can say otherwise, I'm under the assumption that drives/partitions above 128-gb are an issue with FREEDOS.

I am aware of some Seagate 250-gb drives, one of which is available with good reviews at Tiger Direct. That particular drive is a 2.50-inch type, but I believe I'm correct in assuming that a 3.50-inch adapter would allow me to install such a drive in my current desktop.

Please let me know if all this sounds right.

Thanx-A-Lot, a belated Merry Christmas and Very Happy New Year
Frank-0-Video

[ofbarea]

That sound good.

I'm using DOSBox with the same results.
http://www.dosbox.com

[ranchhand]

FREEDOS to run some old programs

I tried that once on my homebuild AMD quad/3.0 GHz, EVGA video card, 4gig RAM. I dedicated a 250gig SATA hard drive (installed in the same box) for running older games. Formatted FAT32 with DOS. The problem is that the games would not run with the newer technology hardware. I would just get error messages complaining about conflicts with video card, etc. I finally built a computer using old hardware and the games run like crazy. Another thing you may find, some games that you may get to load will react like they are in speeded up motion (like those old, antique silent films were wayyyy back). There is a utility that will slow the speed down to normal, I forget the name now.
Anyway, that is my experience.

[nic2k4]

Just install Virtualbox, no partitioning required, it runs inside windows and it simulates standard hardware.