From Wikipedia, freedos
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Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and ReactOS
The Windows NT family of operating systems, including Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 no longer make use of MS-DOS as a core component of the system. These systems can make use of the FAT filesystems, which are used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows; however, they typically use the NTFS (New Technology File System) by default. FreeDOS can coexist on these systems on a separate partition on NTFS systems, or on the same partition on FAT systems. The FreeDOS kernel can be booted by adding it to the Windows NT Boot Loader configuration file, boot.ini, or freeldr.ini for ReactOS.[/b]
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It also seems, from the FAT article, that FAT32 should be fine with DOS, but there's a bugger in my memory saying there were some issues. Basically, FAT16/32 is an hdd size issue.