Ars Technica

Creating DOS Bootable USB Drive for Thinkpad T30

I need to update the firmware of the DVD drive in my laptop (Thinkpad T30 2366-92U); to do this I have to boot in DOS and run the firmware update. The catch-22 is that my DVD and floppy drive can't ...
Computerworld

Creating an MS-DOS Boot Disk

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 ...
Ars Technica

Making a bootable CD with a 2.88 Meg floppy image

I'm trying to make a bootable CD that boots to the image of 2.88 Meg DOS floppy and I'm not having much luck. Here's a quick run down of the steps I've taken.<P>1) Create a 1.44 Meg floppy disk that ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Make a Startup CD Using Windows XP

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...
Techgage

Creating a Bootable DOS Flash Drive the Easy Way

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 ...