Will MS-DOS floppy disc from one desktop PC boot up another/any ?
Yes. A floppy disk with the MS-DOS boot files will boot any PC. I’ve found a software long ago which promised to boot DOS from a CD. But I have no idea where to find it anymore and it didn’t seem to work properly. The best thing to do now is booting DOS from a flash memory stick (pendrive) if you want to do it. Here are the links for the HP USB Disk Storage Format tool: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fi… and the BOOTDISK: http://www.bootdisk.com/ First thing to do: Use the HP software to make your pendrive work as a boot disk; It’s quite simple. All you need to do is show where your DOS boot files are (they will be installed into a folder when you use BOOTDISK) and indicate what is the port your USB flash drive is plugged into. Please note that when you use the HP tool, it only copies the boot files. You can add/re