So I've recently acquired a stock Dell Latitude CP M233ST with a damaged hard drive. I cannot find a new drive for something this ancient, so I wish to use FDisk to partition off the damaged allocation units. I've partitioned a 10MB section using a Win98SE setup disk and now have my DOS 6.22 disk in the drive. These are CD-ROMs, not floppies, by the way. For some reason, though, FDisk will not read the internal HDD in DOS but will in the Win98SE disk. I've included the system info below. At this point I'm just looking for possible solutions to an unknown issue.

--- System Information/Specs ---
BIOS Version: A14
Processor: Pentium-233 MHz/MMX
Level 2 Cache: 512 KB
System Memory: 64 MB
Video Controller: NeoMagic 2160
Video Memory: 2 MB (Like I'm gonna use all that in DOS?)
Audio Controller: Crystal 4237B
Primary Hard Drive: 5253 MB
Diskette Drive A: Not Installed
Diskette Drive B: Not Installed
Diskette Reconfig: Any Time
Modular BAY: CD-ROM
Service Tag: CDW7L
Asset Tag: Not Installed
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If you want my CMOS config, just ask. Though, I think the RTC battery is dead - it keeps resetting. I'll get to that eventually.If it has a floppy drive you should use it...and i'd replace the battery.Eheh, I don't have a floppy drive MODULE. I wish I did. It would be helpful. But at the moment I'm stuck with a CD-ROM. At least until I can get antiquated hardware.Both Newegg and Amazon have them in stock...internal models if you are here in the States...You could always make a CD act like a Read-only Floppy too as in for installation purposes. I converted one of my Ghost Floppies to CD using an older Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 which had the ability in options to make a Floppy into a CD. CD boots up system and it gives A: prompt.

Also made another that boots up system with NDIS2 driver for Intel Pro 100 Managed NIC and Ghost with Static IP address so I can send images from my master system with Ghost Images to the system requiring image over my LAN. 15 minutes LATER a reboot and I have my spare computer back up and running preconfigured from image.

Just not sure of legalities of converting your DOS 6.22 disk set to CD's.

FreeDOS can be burned to a CD from ISO download and just as good as 6.22 for running older games etc. Used that about 10 years ago for a project and it worked well.