Well here is the deal, I came across some old software, well i wanted to have a little trip down memory lane so what i did was i installed it on my computer (a way more advanced machine than the time of windows 3.1) What i did to install it (because dos wouldnt read it off the cd it came on) was i copied the cd onto my hard drive then i used dos (version 6.22 which i got off of bootdisk.com and ran off of a floppy disk) to run the installation file for windows. Windows installed without issue. Then using the floppy disk with dos on it i was able to load windows. Now my problem is i dont want to have to first boot from the floppy disk, How do i get dos to install onto my hard drive? Now on the cd that windows came on had a dos folder, however, the only way i know of that will let me access the installation file for dos is to use my floppy disk to open the file, however, when i open the file while dos is running it tells me to restart my computer with installation disk 1 in the drive, i dont have this installation disk, i have it in a folder on a cd. Does anyone know where i can get images of these installation disks off the net, or perhaps another way of installing dos onto my hard drive?

To not boot from the floppy do the following in the prompt: SYS A: C: Assuming that A: is your bootdisk and C: is the partition you want to boot into. This will copy the basic boot files (COMMAND.com, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS) to the root of the disk and set the boot sector of that partition to boot using these files. After that, create a folder named C:\DOS and copy all the necessary DOS-based drivers/accessories to that directory. Create a config.sys and a autoexec.bat based on the ones in the boot disk and change the path accordingly

MS-DOS is licensed, copyrighted software. There is NO place that you can legally download and use it. You can still buy a new copy of DOS here and there. Ebay is just one. So far as your specific problem, it sounds to me that you have a proprietary "rocovery" CD, probably for an old Backard Pelch. DO NOT use the "sys" command unless you want to dedicate the hard drive you have for DOS, because if it works at all, it will screw any other system on the drive. Also, DOS 6 series can only handle smaller drive partitions. Probably what you need to do is buy a legit copy of MS DOS. I understand that certain people have gotten Whinehoed 3xx series to run under Windows 9xx

the way i see it, it is a legit copy because it is a legit copy installed on this cd i have, it has its authenticity paper and everything, i am having trouble installing it, so the way i see it, i own a legit copy, i am not violating copyright laws by getting a copy that i can install.

Well, you still haven't told us what you have, as in a Packard Belch restore cd, or what? You may have a point--if you ACTUALLY DO have a license that is legit, I 'spose. But you still haven't answered the question: Are you trying to install this on a dedicated drive, with no other system on? ' If so, you should be able to partition/format, and with the proper bootdisk, either execute a "format/s" or "sys c" to get the drive bootable. THEN you may be able to copy or extract the files on your cd you have to the hard drive. You will, of course, have to configure CDROM drivers for the drive.

If yhe partition is not dedicated, but it is in FAT16, you can manually copy those system files and read the boot disk's boot sector with something like WinImage, and write it to a BOOTSECT.DOS, and then add an item in WinXP/2000/NT's boot.ini pointing to this file

I have a OEM version that is distributed by Micron Computer inc. I would rather install dos as it is suppose to be than just do a sys c: command.