Ars Technica

Creating System Disk using DOS, trying to reformat hard drive

I'm trying to reformat my hard drive (only have one) and it won't let me b/c the os is on the hard drive. I tried creating a start-up disk with Windows XP so that I could boot to DOS and format from a ...
Tampa Bay Times

Sixth version of DOS is packed with utilities

Judging from the crowd at the counter of the local Egghead Software store when the newest version of MS-DOS went on sale, Microsoft may have another hit on its hands. The latest release of Microsoft's ...
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 ...
CNET

Disks formatted in MS-DOS mode using Disk Utility may not work with devices

A MacFixIt reader reports issues formatting disks in MS-DOS FAT using Apple's Disk Utility. When storage devices (in this case, flash memory cards) are formatted using Disk Utility, they may not be ...
Ars Technica

Trying to retrieve data from old DOS/Win3.1 hard drive - Win10 sees as uninitialized

Hello, I have an old IDE HDD from which I would like to retrieve data. Currently have it connected to a Win10 machine via this cheap USB 2.0 IDE/Sata HDD adapter - However Windows 10 sees it as ...