I've got a 4 Gigabyte flash drive that I'd like to make bootable. For right now, I need it to boot DOS or DS linux. I'd like to have it boot to grub or something similar so I can select either one.

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 ...

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

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 ...

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 ...