Like the old-fangled BIOS (which is slowly being phased out with the help of EFI), the DOS operating system is a piece of computing history that refuses to be only history. While most folks will never ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Your USB drive can be your emergency toolkit at home and away, and if the host machine supports booting from a USB drive, you can boot to a USB key that you've prepared in advance. USB drives can boot ...

A bootable USB key suddenly looks to DOS like an ordinary hard disk, without any drivers. DOS can't read modern disk formats, and indeed struggles with any drive bigger than 2 TB, but that doesn't ...

Given only a Win2k installation is there any way to boot to DOS/make a DOS boot disk?<P>Ideally I'd like to format a 10 Meg partition as a bootable DOS drive. A borrowed Win95 install disk got the ...

Im trying to flash the bios of a graphic card in my mac pro. The flashing part shouldnt be diffcult but damn, how the heck do I create a custom dos boot disk? <BR><BR>The mac pro has no floopy drive.