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 ...

I had MS DOS 6.22 running fine in a multi-boot set up with Win98, WinXP Home, and Red Hat 7.3 Linux. Somehow, after upgrading 98 to 98SE I lost the choice at Win98 boot to chose the previous OS. The ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

Here are two things I have found relatively difficult using Linux. Am I doing something wrong here? 1. How do you update your BIOS easily using Linux (Floppy, CD, or USB)? 2. How do you create a ...