Like the old-fangled BIOS (which is slowly being phased out with the help of EFI), the DOS operating system is a piece of computing history that refuses to be only history. While most folks will never ...

Since MS-DOS doesn't support USB devices, I'd suspect that the BIOS would have to support the device natively as a bootable drive before you could achieve anything like this-- and even then it would ...

I'm trying to use a USB 2.0 external hard drive with Norton Ghost but I haven't had any luck recognizing the thing in DOS mode. I used Norton's ghost boot wizard to make a bootable floppy for ...

Do you keep a bootable USB drive handy? Maybe you still have the USB drive that you last used to install Windows, or any of the other bootable thumb drives that you've made over the years? Since we ...