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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How can I execute my old DOS-only applications on a modern computer?
The first versions of my software that I developed back in 1991 were DOS-only versions that I wrote using Turbo Pascal. At the time, it never occurred to me that I would actually still be selling ...
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Can you send function key commands to DOS from a batch file?
I am new to batch files and I need to write one for a program that runs in DOS. One of the questions on the prompt requires a function key command (i.e. F1, F2, etc).
I've read an article that says ...
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DOS Batch file to find "new" files by date
My PC has entered an infinite BSOD loop - but I do have access to a safe-mode command prompt.
I'm trying to get an idea of "what changed" that might have triggered this. e.g. I might have gotten a ...
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How to start DOS on a PC with just HDD (no FDD/CD/USB drives)
Would making a first partition (which FAT?) of 1,44 MB with a bootable image of DOS start the system on a laptop's HDD? or in other words Can one start a laptop without FDD/CD/USB with just ...
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Rescue DOS (probably FAT16) files
I have very old computer with DOS. I need to rescue some files, all application folder, copy it to Windows XP and try to run this application in an emulator like DOSBox.
My Windows XP installation ...
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FoxPro 2.6 DOS on Windows 7 64-bit
I support a company that has a very old, mission critical, FoxPro for DOS 2.6 (FPD) application.
For variuos reasons the company didn't adapt/migrate their app, which, ironically, has been running ...
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How does 'fc' command works in DOS and how does it work?
DOS had a command fc,which was used to compare the files in binary mode, I am a bit stuck with the concept of comparing the files.Why do we compare the files in binary mode? And how does the fb ...
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How can I send data to the serial port from a Linux shell?
I need to find the linux way of running the following DOS commands:
MODE COM1: 9600,N,8,1,P
COPY FIRMWARE.COD COM1
Is this possible? I know COM1 in Linux is /dev/ttyS0 but that's about it.
How do ...
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Populating Array in DOS Batch Script
How can I setup an array variable in a DOS batch script? I would like to load it with a list of file names to process. I really would like to keep this as simple as possible. Thank you.
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How should I partition my hard drive to allow these 4 operating system to be installed?
Here is my situation. I'm currently in the process of attempting to triple-boot (or technically quad-boot I guess) my pc with Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Mac OS X Leopard. And I have my pc ...
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Can I install DOS as a lui frontend bootloader?
Hi I was wondering if it's possible to install DOS as a lui frontend bootloader?
For example, let's say I have Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu linux all installed, I want to have my computer boot ...
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DOS commands for Epson dot matrix not working
Our Epson dot matrix printer is not printing on the following DOS command.:
Type text.txt>prn
But it does print perfectly on:
open TEXT.txt>File>Print
What is the issue here?
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Run Command Prompt in XP mode in Windows 7
I am trying to run a DOS application (.com) in Windows 7 64bit. It will not run on anything newer than XP. Is there any way? I can set the comand prompt to run in XP compatibility mode? The only ...
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How can I create bootable DOS usb stick?
I need to use this utility to change one of the parameters of my new WD hard drive:
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=609&sid=113&lang=en
It has truly unreadable ...
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PC only boots from Linux-based media and won't boot from DOS-based media
I have this problem where the PC only seems to boot from a floppy disk or CD if it was created as a Linux-based bootable media. If it was created as a DOS-based bootable media the system just freezes ...
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View BSAVE/BLOAD Image File in Windows?
BSAVE files are essentially partial memory dumps from the "old" DOS days. I have some old files created using BSAVE and would like to open them with a windows image editing application...Does anyone ...
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How to split a file on a floppy disk without installing any software in DOS?
I want to split a 2.6 MB file on a floppy disk. Is there a way that I can use a DOS command to help me in a pure dos environment. (no applications are allowed to install)
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Creating DOS bootable cd
I need to burn a cd which I will boot from to reset a password on Windows Server.
I am using Active Password Changer, but I get an error like so:
How can I create a "DOS bootable disk"? I have an ...
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Is there a way to append files efficiently using the DOS copy command?
Using the DOS copy command syntax to concatenate files:
copy file1.txt+file2.txt all.txt
I know I can do this...
copy file1.txt+file2.txt file1.txt
Is this efficient? Is it doing what I'm ...
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How to move an old DOS installation to VmWare?
I have an old hard disc running MS-DOS and some very old programs for which I miss the installation discs.
Now I want to move the complete content of this hard disc to a VmWare hosted by Windows XP.
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DR-DOS free version?
I'm looking for a recent and free version of DR-DOS.
It's kind of complicated, and if I have this right:
Digital Research made CP/M which was popular, but IBM didn't like the DRI terms and picked ...
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