Having a secondary boot volume is almost a necessity for troubleshooting some problems with Macs. Here are some options for creating boot disks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

Is it possible to create a DOS 6.22 (or Win98 DOS) bootable Zip disk? If so, does anyone have detailed instruction on how to do this?<P>I have an ATAPI Zip250 drive, if that makes a difference. I'd ...

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is. Insert a disk into your floppy disk drive and run Windows ...

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

I need to create a bootable system floppy to update BIOs.<BR><BR>The instructions say to type [FORMAT A:/S] from the DOS prompt WITHOUT creating "AUTOEXEC.BAT" and "CONFIG.SYS" files.<BR><BR>How do I ...

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...