You need an MS-DOS system disk to boot the computer so you can change the BIOS. You can create the disk using Windows 98/Me by typing format a:/s from the command prompt. Once you've created 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 ...

Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 ... The company's former Chief Technical Officer had some unreleased beta binaries of MS-DOS 4.0 in ... and disk image files that ...

Over the weekend my computer became infected with the FunLove virus right after I exited a CS game. I went to Symantec's website and by their instructions since I'm running WinXP Pro I need a DOS ...

When Disk Utility says MS-DOS, it apparently means MS-DOS FAT 32, as opposed to MS-DOS FAT 16, which may be shown as an option but in this case wasn't. "The cards still failed on the Nikon and the ...

The blog post continues: "While they were unable to find the full source code for MT-DOS, they did find MS-DOS 4.00, which we're releasing today, alongside these additional beta binaries, PDFs of ...

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work.

If you’ve used MS-DOS before then you’ll be right at home right away—if you haven’t, you’ll need to brush up on the commands (we’ve already mentioned a couple of them).

Today, it’s basically impossible to disassociate Microsoft from the idea of the personal computer, especially given the dominance of its Windows operating system. However, before Windows arrived on ...

As it turns out, getting MS-DOS 6.22 running on a modern computer isn’t nearly as hard as you’d think. In fact, it works pretty much perfectly. Assuming, that is, you pick the right machine.

Edit: It starts the MS-DOS Editor tool, which is used to create and modify text files. Edlin: It starts the Edlin tool, which is used to create and modify text files from the command line. Edlin was ...