CNET

Recent TIL articles: DOS formatted Zip disks; Mail error; Startup Disk selection; Language Kits in Classic

106317: Mac OS X 10.0: PC-DOS Formatted Zip Disks Do Not Work With Classic Applications states: "You cannot save directly to a PC-DOS formatted Iomega Zip disk from an application that is open in 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 ...
Yahoo

This long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced ...
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

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 ...
Ars Technica

DOS Boot Disk Wont Allow Me To Flash My BIOS

I keep getting the following error when trying to flash my bios:<P>"Can not flash bios is memory managers (HIMEM) present."<P>I created my boot disk from xp by right ...
BizTech

What is MS-DOS: Computers Reshaped by Simple OS

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...