Stephen, first of all, thanks for the response... Now for the questions....

I shouldn't need to add the system files, I don't want to boot it, I just want to have a "native" DOS partition to use for my "finiky" program. All I want on the partition is a DOS format, and its format structure. My thinking on my DOS program is that it is "somehow" finding something wrong with the files being "translated" or "emulated" from a Linux OS over to DOS, I am hopeing that by setting up a DOS file system for the program, it will run in DosBox, or DOSEmu, etc... In DosBox it just froze at the initialization processing of the program.

Do I need to set the partition to active? I already have my Linux partition set to active, pardon my stupidity, especially if this is a real SIMPLE question, but, what "exactly" does the active do? and worse yet, can you have more than one active on a single hard drive? ( I know, its probably a very simple/stupid question, hey, can ya tell I'm a long standing Windows USER??? (ha ha ha) )

Lastly, drive C: ??? Here is my drive maping, as it stands now:

Primary - Linux partition - active - boot - 39gig
Primary - Win9x FAT32 (LBA) - 1.7+/- gig
Primary - Linux Swap - 500meg

I did go into fdisk, and it shows NON-DOS on the first partition, DOS on second, and NON-DOS on the third.

Considering I used only cfdisk to do all of this, does fdisk need to get involved in this? Will doing a Format C: perform the format ONLY on the DOS (or second) partition? I'd hate to screw up my Linux after all of this work?

Thanks for all the help,
Cuddles