Questions tagged [disk-operating-system]
Disk Operating System (DOS) was the first operating system by Microsoft that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995. Do not use this tag for questions about DOSBox, FreeDOS or any later operating system from Microsoft.
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Does accesing a file "random" and updating just a part of a file really updates record randomly on hard drive?
I use Visual Basic 6.0. It is possible "Processing Files with Older File I/O" as it is said using VB6. Files can be reached as "random" using this I/O. It gives opportunity to read ...
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Can't format pendrive whatever I do. It is not read only pendrive [duplicate]
This is a working pendrive. I can write on the main partition, delete from it. Everything possible can be done. Just can't format it. Formatting tools on OS other than Mac show format complete but ...
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Can't format pendrive whatever I do [duplicate]
I really need help. Even if you are not sure of the solution, please suggest something. I really need it.
I formatted a pendrive in macOS using disk utility (GUID, macOS extended journaled). Then I ...
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Ok for Raspberry Pi to cause retract cycles (HDD)
I was wondering if it is ok if the Raspberry Pi 3B+ causes my HDD to have a power off retract everytime the OS i use is shutdown/rebooted? Can this affect my HDD lifetime? Im using 1TB seagate ...
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Switch C: and D: for D: to be the main disk
I have a PC with Windows 7 Pro with two internal disks:
C: with 80GB
D: with 360GB
The main disk (C:) is almost full.
That's why I would like, if it is possible, to copy everything from C: to D: ...
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How do I run SIMTOWER on windows 10 home version 1511?
I have my old disk for simtower and want to play it but all my pcs are windows 10 home (Version 1511 - OS Build 10586318)
please help me download emulator and play. my user name does have a space in ...
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Larger MS-DOS Img file?
I am making an operating system based on ms-dos and using a program called win image to edit an ms-dos .img file, the program only lets me inject at total size of 2.88mb worth of files
and i would ...
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How to get a Windows 7 Home Premium copy?
Few days back my hard drive stop working and I don't have any recovery of my operating system.
And when I bought this laptop they didn't provide any OS disc with it.
I want to know is there any way ...
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How can I get more low memory with the following setup:
Modules using memory below 1 MB:
Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory
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MSDOS 14 317 (14K) ...
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In VMWare Workstation 8, can I print from DOS guest to Windows 7 host's XPS Writer or similar soft printer?
VMWare insists on connecting virtual printer in guest to the serial port and naturally nothing works.
Windows allows assigning legacy LPT1 port but it exposed only to DOS on the host and VMWare ...
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DosBox Booting From HDD Image, FreeDOS Image created with qemu-img.
I'm having trouble booting a HDD image with DosBox. I've only gotten either read errors, or boot failures.
The HDD image is a verified working FreeDOS installation, created with qemu-img.
The image ...
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Installing IBM PC DOS 4.0 on VMWare
I'm trying to install IBM PC DOS 4.0 onto a VMWare virtual machine. The machine keeps rebooting, gets to a blank cursor, then reboots again.
I've booted a Windows 98 boot disk just fine so it's ...
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Why did DOS software packages often require a "100% compatible" system?
The system requirements for many software packages for DOS specify an "IBM PC or 100% compatible". Why "100% compatible"? Were there systems at the time that had only partial IBM PC compatibility?
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Why do "ls" in UNIX and "dir" in DOS have different names?
Why do they have different names for the same command, listing a directory? Surely, they could have talked to each other and agreed on one common name, such as for example cd which is the same for ...
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Tool for creating system image from DOS (should be USB bootable) ..? [closed]
I want to know if there's any decent tool which can be used to create the system image from DOS .. What I specifically want to do is to put the program in my FAT32 formatted USB, then boot the target ...
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