I learned the ins and outs of Microsoft's dominant character-based OS, and wrote about it and the applications that ran on it, like WordPerfect, Textra, Lotus 1-2-3, and even MS Word on DOS.

If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compression, disable it before running Setup. <P>How do I create an MS-DOS boot partition? How can I get Win98 back on this hard drive?

MS-DOS never made it to 7.01, or 7.10. The last official release of MS-DOS was 6.22. If it's version 7.10 most likely it's DR-DOS, which, IIRC, was made by Caldera.

Sysinternals offers NTFSDOS, a utility that allows access to NTFS volumes from MS-DOS. A freeware version of NTFSDOS lets you read NTFS volumes, but does not allow you to write to them.

Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source software preservation. Working in ...