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 ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

I need to create DOS boot floppies that will load the network drivers so that I may access a network drive to image a bunch of floppy/CD-rom less (I have ONE USB floppy drive... great planning on ...

I have a system that had three partitions and I was dual-booting Win98 (c:drive - FAT32) and W2K (d:drive - NTFS). Anyway, I completely trashed that setup and repartitioned the drive to just load ...

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...

Developed during the 1960s, a Floppy Disk is certainly a thing of the past. But some users may still need it for some reason. Floppy drives were extensively used during the 1980s, 1990s, and early ...