I have an old computer that I want to get working for fun, but I can't seem to get it to work with anything from DOS 3.3 above. I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find a DOS 3.2 bootdisk. I've tried bootdisk.com, they seem to stop at 3.3.

Thanks for the help.

I think the problem that you have is that your boot floppies are in the wrong format.

You may need 720K 3.5 inch floppies or 360K 5.25 inch floppies.

Hmm...

This is probably a really stupid question, but would I be able to use a 5.25" drive on a newer computer (PII, win98) and use a program to copy the image to a 5.25" disk? Or, am I just dreaming here?

Yes, As long as the floppy cable has the right connectors.

1) on your old computer, is the floppy drive 5.25" or 3.5"?

2) next determine if the drive can read:-

DD only (5.25" = 360kb/3.5" = 720kb)

or

DD and HD (5.25" = 1.20mb/3.5" = 1.44kb)

Note: do not fall into the 3.5" 2 hole trap.
DD discs should only have one square hole and hd two. The second hole advises the pc it is an hd disc. Problem is that earlier pc's that were dd only did not use the second hole and formatted as dd. Then when read on a later pc it thought it had an hd disc but could not read it.

3) using dos HELP, checkout the FORMAT command, particularly the /F:nn option as you may need it.

4) there should be no problem in connecting/using a 5.25" drive on new pc's. Remember to enable it as such in the bios.

5) you do not want to copy an disc image. Instead use the SYS command to create a boot disc, then copy the other files.

Good luck - keep us posted.

Well, I got it working. :)

Thank you both for the help. I ended up figuring out how to make my old computer boot to the B drive (3.5"). I haven't been able to figure out how to get into BIOS on a Tandy, so I had to hook it up to the FDD A connector (I didn't even know they had one until I opened the computer up). When the disks were in 720KB format (thanks, wizard-fred), it worked.

Hi,
On the older Tandys you will need to download a SETUP DISK in order to get into the BIOS. Go to www.tandy.com and do a search for the setup info for your particular Tandy Model.