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 ...

A MacFixIt reader reports issues formatting disks in MS-DOS FAT using Apple's Disk Utility. When storage devices (in this case, flash memory cards) are formatted using Disk Utility, they may not ...

In the Format dialog box, select the check box labeled ‘Create an MS-DOS startup disk’ and then click Start. When the warning dialog appears, click OK to continue.

Run CHKDSK commands to fix the disk errors, optimize and defragment the drive to make sure the drive is performing at the optimal level, and format the disk in NTFS format if nothing works.