FAT boot sector

[GLneo]

hello, ok i'm thinking about making my OS floppy disk able to have files copy/pasted on to it. but i dont now what is needed by the boot sector or the disk root dir to let windows xp see it ??? any recomended docs?, thx

[bubach]

For use in windows your bootsector must support FAT12, which means that you must provide a FAT12 header in the bootsector and load your file via FAT12 rules..

FAQ:
http://www.osdev.org/osfaq2/index.php/F ... ef6b991863

BOS 0.03 have a FAT12 bootsector that you can take a look at:
http://bos.asmhackers.net/

[Warrior]

NICE top article, I was looking for a good Fat12 doc for my bootloader. Thanks