Computerworld

Creating an MS-DOS Boot Disk

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 ...
Ars Technica

Creating System Disk using DOS, trying to reformat hard drive

I'm trying to reformat my hard drive (only have one) and it won't let me b/c the os is on the hard drive. I tried creating a start-up disk with Windows XP so that I could boot to DOS and format from a ...
Ars Technica

Creating a boot CD - Custom Emulation Size?

I have Powerquest Drive Image and Powerquest Partition Magic. Both create two floppy disk sets with the first consisting of a Dr. Dos boot disk (pretty much the same disk with a different autoexec.bat ...
PC World

Review: Active@ Boot Disk 7 is a jack-of-all-trades repair and imaging utility

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...
Computerworld

Creating an MS-DOS Boot Disk in Windows XP

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is. Insert a disk into your floppy disk drive and run Windows ...