I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn't be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn't quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Windows ships with a startup CD, also known as a bootable disk, but you can make a new one if the original is unavailable. You can make a bootable MS-DOS disk using the utilities built into ...

MS-DOS loaded startup parameters in the "Autoexec.bat" file that ran before Windows booted. However, modern versions of Windows no longer use MS-DOS or an Autoexec.bat file.

In the Format dialog box, select the check box labeled ‘Create an MS-DOS startup disk’ and then click Start. When the warning dialog appears, click OK to continue.