Ms Dos 622 3 Disk Download

DOS is not involved in any part of that situation. You would not want to format a drive to be used with XP with DOS; you would format the drive from within the XP installation routine instead. General information about replacing Vista with XP: A.

Agreed, 7.1 CD would be much better for this purpose. It includes 'native' CD and Mouse drivers, unlike 6.22. Although it is your choice, MS-DOS would probably not be a very good use of that computer.

On an OEM (HP, Sony, etc.) computer: 1. Go to the OEM's website and look for XP drivers for your specific model computer. If there are no XP drivers, then you can't install XP. End of story. If there are drivers, download them and store on a CD-R or USB thumbdrive; you'll need them after you install XP.

Check with the OEM - either from their tech support website or by calling them - to see if you will void your warranty if you do this. If you will void the warranty, you make the decision. If the OEM does support XP on the machine, call them and see if you can have downgrade rights and have them send you an XP restore disk. This will be far the easiest and best way of getting XP on the machine. If XP is supported on the machine but the OEM doesn't have an XP restore disk for you, understand that you'll need to purchase a retail copy of XP from your favorite online or brick/mortar store. Also understand that you will need to do a clean install of XP so if you have any data you want, back it up first. If none of the above is applicable to you because you can't run XP on that machine (see Item #1 above), return the computer and purchase one running XP instead.

On a generic/home-built computer (from non-OEM company) - You will need drivers for all your hardware. See the second link below for more details: - Clean Install How-To - What you will need on-hand MS-MVP - Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!

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Installing MS DOS Step 1: Create a bootable DOS Disk: Note: This is alternate to if you don’t have boot622.exe disk. If you have boot622.exe disk you can skip this step 1 of creating a bootable dos disk. Insert blank disk on Floppy drive. Go to my computer and under 3½ Floppy (A) drive right click. Click on Format. Check the box that says, Create an MS- DOS startup disk You can give a volume label any name at this point.

May be give it a startup as a label. Make sure that volume label is not more than 11 characters long. When done close the pop up box. Step 2: Create DOS Disk 1, 2 and 3 install disk. You can search online to get DOS disk. Once you get the all three disk downloaded from online or any other source move on to following steps. Create DOS install disk number 1: Format disk 1 Insert Disk on floppy drive.

Format the disk. Follow the same method as describes on step 1 above, but this time do not check the box that says Create an MS DOS startup disk. Regarding volume label you don’t have to worry about it at this point. I will explain you latter why we need not worry about volume label at this point. After formatting the Floppy, copy all the content of disk 1 from the location where you saved the download (or where you unzip the download) to the formatted floppy. Pecs kartochki free. Now here is the little configuration part we have to do manually.

PC will not recognize this floppy unless we give this floppy a volume label. For some reason giving a volume label from windows doesn’t seem to work for me. You need to go to DOS window to give disk a volume label. Label DISK 1 You need LABLE.EXE file on your disk to complete this step.

Check to see if you have that exe file on disk 1. If you don’t you need to copy that file from somewhere. I copied that file from boot622.exe disk. I haven’t looked around any other place to find it. I am sure you can get it online.

Once you have LABLE.EXE file on DISK 1 you are good to label the disk. Insert MS DOS startup disk (or boot622.exe) on Floppy drive and boot your pc from MS DOS startup disk (you have to change the boot order on BIOS to boot from floppy drive first). Once you are on command line that starts with A:/. You are in business. Now type LABLE and hit ENTER.