Thursday, July 18, 2013

How to make MS-DOS bootable flash drive

Though mainly the boot disk are used to access a system that doesn't have any OS installed, there are many reason you want to boot from a disk boot. There are those who just having having troubles with their OS. The main reason why we use a boot disk to format our hard disk is to have a clean drive before any OS installation. Below is the step by step instruction to have a flash dish boot disk. The MS-DOS boots from start up using a flash disk drive, to do this you need;
  1. flash dish, a 
  2. rufus utility, from here
  3. a bootdisk iso (i'll be using a Windows 98 bootdisk, win98_bootdisk.iso) 



After you download everything you need all you have to do is open rufus utility. click "the disk icon" to the right of "Create a bootable disk using:", and selected the win98_bootdisk.iso you have downloaded. Click "start" once and then you have a bootdish flash drive. 

plug it in, make sure you boot from USB flash disk using the BIOS option. and youre there you just type 
"format drive /C:" and there's to it

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