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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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How to turn HDD into DOS bootable device to run a particular utility?
HDD Specifications:
Toshiba MK5065GSXF | HDD2L13 | P TN01 T | 500 GB
Problem:
I would like to make this HDD into a bootable device with clnpwd utility on it that I will connect as one and only ...
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How do I auto turn-off a DOS ONLY machine using software? The PC has NO POWER SWITCH
I have an old PC that has no power switch (it's a long story). It is running DOS 6.20. I am looking for an interrupt call or anything to turn off the computer using software as I need it to turn off ...
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Can a computer that uses EFI/UEFI rather than BIOS run a real mode OS?
Title says it all: could I get away with installing a real mode OS such as MS-DOS on a EFI-based computer? I understand that EFI-based computers still use "BIOS emulation" for compatibility reasons, ...
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How can MS-DOS and other text mode programs display double-width CJK characters?
I've seen many text mode BIOS setup screens in Japanese and Chinese. Recently I've even seen Windows XP setup in Japanese. MS-DOS had Japanese versions too. Real DOS mode, not Windows command prompt!
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PCI Expansion card resource allocation by a Plug-and-Play BIOS
Plug-and-Play BIOS spec says that if you have a PnP BIOS, it can configure the hardware.
This means that your BIOS reads the resource requirements of all devices and configures them (allocates bus-...
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How can I access dos from Windows XP
How can I access MS DOS from win XP?
I want to upgrade my BIOS. (Downgrade, in fact.)
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Is it possible to boot DOS from USB?
I've got a pc running CentOS, it has no CD or floppy drive. It has an Intel board and I need to upgrade the BIOS because the current version doesn't support CPU vt (however CPU got it) for KVM.
I ...
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