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 ...

Can anyone tell me if this is possible and how I would do it? I have a USB that is bootable to DOS. I want to know if I can add a way so that when DOS is fully booted up a script will be automatically ...

Sometimes, the size and complexity of modern OSes – even the FOSS ones – is enough to make us miss the days when an entire bootable OS could fit in three files, when configuring a PC for production ...

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 ...