Is it possible to create a DOS 6.22 (or Win98 DOS) bootable Zip disk? If so, does anyone have detailed instruction on how to do this?<P>I have an ATAPI Zip250 drive, if that makes a difference. I'd ...

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 ...

My current setup is NT 4.0 on the C: drive and I would like to dual boot to DOS on the second, , drive setup as the master on the secondary IDE controller.<BR><BR>Now I can already do this by changing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anyone who is 40 or under and raised as a user, rather than an expert, is unlikely to even remember MS-DOS. Let alone command-driven Unix. The point-and-click interface of Windows 3.0 dropped 20 years ...

With our zippy Intel Macs able to eagerly boot up Windows 7 in Boot Camp, VMWare, Parallels, and VirtualBox, it's difficult to fathom that it was ever a problem to run Microsoft operating systems on ...