If you want to, youre gonna have to faff around with having to reinstall windows and a boot manager.
INSTALL DOS 7.1 TO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE INSTALL
Consequently, this is why we wont install onto our hard disk. This is so the DOS installer doesnt accidentally write to the first two GB of your actual hard drive (ruining your Windows/*nix installation. Step 1 - On computer 1, disconnect the hard drive from the motherboard. This will be useful once you've installed DOS for installing programs. I think you can do this with WinRAR but, I like WinImage. Rufus-For low level formatting the "Floppy USB" (the USB that will emulate the floppy disk Ideally, you'll want the Hard USB to would be of size 2Gb or greater. You will also want two USB sticks, one you will use to emulate a floppy disk (call it Floppy USB) and one to make the hard disk on which you will install DOS (call it Hard USB). Youre gonna need two computers to make this method feasable, the computer youre installing DOS on (call it computer 1) and the computer that you will use for file transfers and formatting of the USB stick (call it computer 2).
INSTALL DOS 7.1 TO EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE SOFTWARE
Please ensure you keep IO.SYS MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM however.įirstly youre gonna wanna get all the relevant software and hardware. To install onto a hard drive, the process is mostly the same.) You can also just make a boot floppy by completing step 2, then make space by deleting files you deem unnecessary and copying whatever you want onto the boot floppy. This tutorial will be for installing MS-DOS 6.22 onto a USB stick (I will explain why not to the hard drive later.
I accidentally discovered this method whilst messing around about 2 years ago and have made numerous such USB sticks with much success.
Please comment your thoughts and any improvements to the tutorial you might have. I recently wrote this as a comment to a post and thought it might be useful to more people that want to run DOS on real hardware.
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