Questions tagged [ms-dos]
MS-DOS was the most popular operating system for desktop PCs until the mid-1990s. Do not use this tag for questions about Windows command line programs or scripts.
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Trying to create a simple DOS boot USB stick [closed]
Pretty simple request. I'd like to make a bootable USB stick that contains DOS files to let me update the BIOS on an old motherboard.
I know about DOS boot disks from AllBootDisks - https://www....
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“psloglist” for system event returns an error: -1073740940
My batch must extract system and application events.
I use two psloglist (vers. 2.82) cmd one after the other.
psloglist \\Home -d 7 -f we sys > system.log
psloglist \\Home -d 7 -f we app > ...
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Why did PC users need partitions in the 1980s
I'm currently working on research related to the history of file systems.
Apparently the Master Boot Record was introduced with MS-DOS 2 in 1983, which was also the first DOS that supported hard disks....
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How to boot from a USB floppy drive on a UEFI BIOS
I have a RAAYOO USB floppy drive reader and some generic 1.44 MB floppy disks. I am trying to boot FREEDOS Floppy Edition using this reader on a computer with a UEFI BIOS. It shows up under legacy ...
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Memory performance on vintage 486 computers using SpeedSys
A seemingly large community of vintage Intel 486 computer enthusiasts use SpeedSys (among others) to check whether their newly acquired/repaired machine works as expected.
This is what such a test ...
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Force-Printing Partial pages in page oriented printer
How can I force a page-oriented printer to print a partial page?
From a command prompt (In Windows XP, but true since MS-DOS days), if you direct output to a page oriented printer such as a Laserjet, ...
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What does a YT-DLP batch file for MS-DOS look like which accepts URLs which have been copied to the clip-board?
Please view the batch file below.
The goal
... is to run yt-dlp in a batch file, which then gives you a menu with six options:
yt-dlp "%temp_file%"
yt-dlp -f best "%temp_file%"
yt-...
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How do I send a file to an old pen plotter using a USB to centronics cable with Windows 11, ideally through DOS?
I have an old Graphtec pen plotter from the 90's that works perfectly well from ubuntu copying files via the terminal. It also used to work with windows 10 but I can no longer communicate with it via ...
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Building 8051 application under DOS
I'm trying to rebuild some 8051 code from 25 years ago and the documentation is a bit sketchy. It is all MS-DOS based and I'm running it from the Command Prompt on a Windows XP machine.
I've managed ...
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Misconception of MS-DOS booting process?
I was using the latest version of Rufus (more precisely, Rufus 4.1.2045 Portable) to createa a bootable MS-DOS USB drive. This works well, after booting, the ver command shows the following.
Windows ...
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Make a DOS Boot Disk on a USB stick using a Mac
I'm trying to make a DOS Boot Disk on a USB stick using a Mac.
I don't really care if it's MS-DOS or FreeDOS, as long as I can use it to flash a faulty BIOS on a X9DRL-iF from SuperMicro.
I don't want ...
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How to boot a Windows 98 disk image restored in a larger disk?
Let me explain what I did in detail:
found that the Samsung 1.6GB IDE HDD in a Windows 98 PC (Pentium 200MHz) was failing
detached it and dumped it using gddrescue through a slightly newer PC running;...
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FreeDOS not working, kinda?
I am trying to make a usb bootable with rufus to run freeDOS, however, it may turn on, but then I cannot type anything. I also tried with the original DOS image with rufus and still, nothing worked. ...
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Windows 11 DOS FOR/IF
I am trying to include in a batch file a check to see if a java process is already running before attempting to start it.
I have the following working command:
FOR /F "tokens=*" %g IN ('wmic ...
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Need help echoing audio sound cards to a text file in a dos bat
I have 8 sound cards installed and am trying to create dos code to dummy echo all the sound card exact names to text file. But ffmpeg won't echo output to a file .
Here is what I have tried, and not ...
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