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 ...

The floppy disk contains the oldest version of 86-DOS thought to still exist. Although long-abandoned for far more advanced successors, MS-DOS remains a pivotal piece of computer history. Released to ...

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 ...

Over the weekend my computer became infected with the FunLove virus right after I exited a CS game. I went to Symantec's website and by their instructions since I'm running WinXP Pro I need a DOS 7.01 ...

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You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...