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 ...

Given only a Win2k installation is there any way to boot to DOS/make a DOS boot disk?<P>Ideally I'd like to format a 10 Meg partition as a bootable DOS drive. A borrowed Win95 install disk got the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this month's column we will walk through the steps of installing Debian Potato in a multiboot configuration with Windows 98/NT/2K. Our machine will serve as the desktop system of a software ...

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 ...

You may already know that "deleting" a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on. What do you mean ...

Back in the day, before interconnected networks, I always carried two or three NetWare client boot diskettes with me when visiting remote sites. Two or three were needed because invariably someone ...

Boot Sector Viruses are malicious programs that reside in your hard drive. They infect your machine by replacing your Master Boot Record (MBR) or DOS Boot Sector with their code. In some cases, boot ...

The golden boot floppy of years past still exists -- but it has morphed into a lighter and more flexible form I still have my old DOS boot floppy disk, which I used for so many installations of ...