bakefat is an easy-to-use tool for creating bootable hard disk (HDD) images with a FAT16 or FAT32 filesystem, and floppy disk images with a FAT12 filesystem, usable in virtual machines running DOS (MS ...

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 ...

What's the big bloody deal?<BR><BR>I've never had a problem creating a DOS boot disk using XP's "create MS-DOS startup disk" format option. Really its no differeant than doing it in Win9X, in that ...

There is a project in my future that involves writing files to a 5.25" floppy. I need recommendations for PCs that meet these requirements. I am looking at two options: 1) an old classic PC with an ...

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 ...