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 ...

I had MS DOS 6.22 running fine in a multi-boot set up with Win98, WinXP Home, and Red Hat 7.3 Linux. Somehow, after upgrading 98 to 98SE I lost the choice at Win98 boot to chose the previous OS. 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 upgraded to WinXP Home last November after my Win98SE had gotten so unstable that I couldn't stand it (and couldn't seem to find a way to fix it, either). But now I want to play some old games that ...

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 ...