Posted by hburpee on September 28, 2007 at 20:43:11:
In Reply to: Re: A way to get a full copy of DOS on hard disk? posted by osman on September 18, 2007 at 05:10:05:
Dude, if you want a full working version of DOS 6.22 you have to create a multiboot system.
1. Nuke your hard drive with a partitioning tool. This can be done by booting from a DOS 6.X disk or with many other open source tools.
2. Insert your DOS 6.22 install disk #1.
3. Install DOS. Partition and Format if prompted to do so.
4. Boot from your Windows NT CD (2k, XP, WS3, Vista, etc.
5. Install to the unpartitioned space. DOS 6.X can only install to a maximum of 2 GB partition so you should have lots of available HDD space on any current system.
6. Install Windows NT ver. X.
7. Rebooting at the end of the install will bring you to a "multi-boot menu" that will give you the choice of booting to "MS DOS" or to your installed version of Windows NT.
Of course... when settting up a multi-boot system you should always start with the lowest common deominator.
Of course... you could always create a Virtual PC DOS 6.22 system...
: : I've seen several messages on this forum saying the latest versions of Windows don't provide a full version of DOS. Is there a way I can dig out my old DOS 6.2 disks and put a full version of DOS on my hard disk? Maybe on a 2nd partition or a 2nd DOS-based hard disk?