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Name: Doofus Date: January 4, 1999 at 20:55:53 Pacific
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Not a chance. However DRDOS7 will. Pick it up at http://www.caldera.com. Very cool folks, those guys.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dan Date: October 28, 2000 at 15:47:07 Pacific
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"Doofus" is wrong. I have an IBM 5160 Personal Computer 8088 (XT) and it will run MS-DOS 6.22.
Scandisk, Defrag, MSAV, and more work on these old pre-IDE hard drives just fine.
If you don't have MS-DOS on 5¼" floppies just SYS a floppy and then copy SYS.COM and FORMAT.COM to it and boot your XT and format the drive with the /s option. Then you can copy the rest of the DOS files to its HD later.
Summary: You can download a full copy of MS-DOS 5.0 from www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk COMMAND.COM will be on Disk 1 You need MS-DOS installed for Windows 3.1 to work, and yes most 'New' PCs were bundled with both...
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