Comments on: MS-DOS Boot Disks http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html Boot Disks and Bootable CD Images for Windows and MS-DOS Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:24:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ivan http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9669 Ivan Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9669 This is just what I need but I need to add 2 files to the disk and just can't seem to get it right. I need to load new BIOS. Could you please let me know how I can do this. Thanks Ivan This is just what I need but I need to add 2 files to the disk and just can’t seem to get it right. I need to load new BIOS. Could you please let me know how I can do this.
Thanks
Ivan

]]> By: Phil Cooper http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9664 Phil Cooper Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:46:08 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9664 Zeb, MS-DOS ran on machines that initially supported only 5.25-inch DSDD (360kB) diskettes in BIOS. Then came 5.25-inch DSHD (1.2MB) diskette support, followed by 3.5-inch DSDD (720kB) diskettes and, finally, 3.5-inch DSHD (1.44MB) diskettes. When hard drives arrived, earlier versions of MS-DOS was only able to handle partitions up to 32MB in size, although larger physical drives could be partitioned into 32MB chunks; ability to handle partitions hundreds of megabytes came later, after DOS 3.31. The early PC-AT machines had IDE/ATAPI support for CD-ROMs only through drivers loaded during startup, and no capability of booting from either IDE or SCSI CD-ROMs. USB flash wasn't even a gleam in the developers' eyes yet. If you need support for modern SATA drives or USB devices, consider a DOS emulator, such as DOS Box, that can hide the details of the hardware from DOS, forcing a directory on a multi-gigabyte hard drive to masquerade as a 10- to 30-megabyte hard drive. Zeb, MS-DOS ran on machines that initially supported only 5.25-inch DSDD (360kB) diskettes in BIOS. Then came 5.25-inch DSHD (1.2MB) diskette support, followed by 3.5-inch DSDD (720kB) diskettes and, finally, 3.5-inch DSHD (1.44MB) diskettes. When hard drives arrived, earlier versions of MS-DOS was only able to handle partitions up to 32MB in size, although larger physical drives could be partitioned into 32MB chunks; ability to handle partitions hundreds of megabytes came later, after DOS 3.31. The early PC-AT machines had IDE/ATAPI support for CD-ROMs only through drivers loaded during startup, and no capability of booting from either IDE or SCSI CD-ROMs. USB flash wasn’t even a gleam in the developers’ eyes yet. If you need support for modern SATA drives or USB devices, consider a DOS emulator, such as DOS Box, that can hide the details of the hardware from DOS, forcing a directory on a multi-gigabyte hard drive to masquerade as a 10- to 30-megabyte hard drive.

]]> By: Phil Cooper http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9663 Phil Cooper Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:34:14 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9663 Thanks, great collection! For completeness, though, it should include 5.25-inch DSHD and 5.25-inch DSDD boot image extractors as well, preferably capable of running on DOS as well as various versions of WIndows, for those folks who are playing around with vintage machines that don't have 1.44MB floppy drives in them and whose BIOS doesn't support 3.5-inch drives. If one can get a system running with a 5.25-inch DSDD floppy, at least, it would be possible to recreate 5.25-inch or even 3.5-inch DSHD (720kB) bootable MS-DOS floppies from that, with additional MS-DOS files taken from other sources. Thanks, great collection! For completeness, though, it should include 5.25-inch DSHD and 5.25-inch DSDD boot image extractors as well, preferably capable of running on DOS as well as various versions of WIndows, for those folks who are playing around with vintage machines that don’t have 1.44MB floppy drives in them and whose BIOS doesn’t support 3.5-inch drives. If one can get a system running with a 5.25-inch DSDD floppy, at least, it would be possible to recreate 5.25-inch or even 3.5-inch DSHD (720kB) bootable MS-DOS floppies from that, with additional MS-DOS files taken from other sources.

]]> By: fejiro http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9611 fejiro Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:27:46 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9611 Hi Ryan, no problem with any version of ms-dos that you want yo use I suggest use 6.22 :) Hi Ryan, no problem with any version of ms-dos that you want yo use I suggest use 6.22 :)

]]> By: Ryan http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9586 Ryan Fri, 21 May 2010 16:48:59 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9586 How do I know which DOS version I should download? Currently running Windows XP on my laptop and about to flash the BIOS to a newer version. There has been issue with this particular BIOS causing an error than can be fixed but I need a DOS boot disk to manually configure at the command prompt. Anyone? How do I know which DOS version I should download? Currently running Windows XP on my laptop and about to flash the BIOS to a newer version. There has been issue with this particular BIOS causing an error than can be fixed but I need a DOS boot disk to manually configure at the command prompt. Anyone?

]]> By: rob http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9572 rob Thu, 06 May 2010 02:20:41 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9572 run assign at the promt to redirect drives then try to install. run assign at the promt to redirect drives then try to install.

]]> By: dsilva http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9520 dsilva Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:42:58 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9520 i have windows millennium and i want to format it to ms dos 3.3 how do i do it i have windows millennium and i want to format it to ms dos 3.3 how do i do it

]]> By: SilverSolver http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9499 SilverSolver Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:08:55 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9499 Zeb, I'm afraid you have limited options. DOS is what it is, and goodness knows that it only had limited native support for hardware when it was current, and hardware has since moved on for sure. You can either dig up an IDE CD so that the native DOS drivers work, you can attempt to find SATA for DOS drivers (good luck on that!!!), or you could download and use FreeDOS, which I think provides support for SATA and other recent hardware. Many CD and floppy images exist, or you can make your own. Hope that helps! Zeb,

I’m afraid you have limited options. DOS is what it is, and goodness knows that it only had limited native support for hardware when it was current, and hardware has since moved on for sure.

You can either dig up an IDE CD so that the native DOS drivers work, you can attempt to find SATA for DOS drivers (good luck on that!!!), or you could download and use FreeDOS, which I think provides support for SATA and other recent hardware. Many CD and floppy images exist, or you can make your own. Hope that helps!

]]> By: Zeb http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9495 Zeb Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:38:48 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9495 Similar problem as Samm , I need an oak device driver for 'sata' cd device system will boot but I cant access the drive for other cd with diagnostics on AS in WD... anyone have a 6.22 dos ISO with an SATA cd device support? I guess I could dig in the trash for an old IDE cd! Last resort, Thanks IDEAS? Zeb Similar problem as Samm , I need an oak device driver for ’sata’ cd device system will boot but I cant access the drive for other cd with diagnostics on
AS in WD… anyone have a 6.22 dos ISO with an SATA cd device support?
I guess I could dig in the trash for an old IDE cd! Last resort, Thanks IDEAS? Zeb

]]> By: Vincent http://www.bootdisks.us/ms-dos/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html/comment-page-1#comment-9474 Vincent Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:18:02 +0000 http://www.boot-disk-images.com/4/ms-dos-boot-disks.html#comment-9474 Hi, can you post a boot disk of "IBM PC DOS 2000" please? Best Regards, Vincent Hi, can you post a boot disk of “IBM PC DOS 2000″ please?

Best Regards,
Vincent

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