MS-DOS Bootable CD Images
Below you’ll find several different bootable CD images in ISO format for MS-DOS.
To create the bootable CD you will need to download the ISO image below. You will then need to use a CD Burning application such as Nero or EZ-CD Creator to burn the ISO to a CD. Once finished you can simply insert the CD and reboot the computer.
- MS-DOS 6.22 (2.8 MB)
- MS-DOS 6.21 (2.3 MB)
- MS-DOS 6.0 (2.4 MB)
- MS-DOS 5.0 (2.2 MB)
- MS-DOS 4.01 (1.7 MB)
- MS-DOS 3.3 (1.6 MB)
Jonny said,
06.16.07 at 10:36 am
Legend, thanks so much!
Sungbok Lee said,
06.27.07 at 12:22 am
I will try the dos boot cd and let you know how it went.
sungbok
mike said,
07.03.07 at 6:02 pm
it doesnt work
Danny Chooi said,
08.23.07 at 2:26 am
Hi.. downloaded MS-DOS 6.22 iso image.. Burn to a CD-R disc.. All OK.. It was able to boot from CD …. but I cant see all my Harddisk..
Why?
tks
Danny
Marcel said,
09.18.07 at 2:22 pm
I downloaded the bootable cd image ms-dos 6.22 and ms-dos 5.0 and tried them. I thought tjat they were supposed to boot my pc in dos mode but it booted as usual from the hard disk. The boot sequence on the BIOS starts with CD-ROM first.
I don’t know what’s wrong, can you help me please?
Div said,
10.09.07 at 12:43 am
I burned the MS-DOS 6.22 image to disc and it boots up fine, but i cannot change the drive directory. If i type C: and hit return is says it is an invalid drive path. I have tried every leter in the alphabet but none work.
Why is this???
Bhushan Timilsina said,
11.18.07 at 6:41 am
Thanks a lot. You’ve been doing good thing, i appreciate, and thanks.
thankful tom said,
12.13.07 at 10:25 pm
thank you for being so simple. i was trying to fix a machine without and had no access to a floppy drive. you saved me a full day of stuffing around.
thankful tom said,
12.13.07 at 10:26 pm
thank you for being so simple. i was trying to fix a machine and had no access to a floppy drive. you saved me a full day of stuffing around.
manish said,
12.27.07 at 1:16 am
a good tool to boot, however not able to support the other present drives
Mike said,
12.29.07 at 9:24 pm
thanks, gonna give it a try
John Klein said,
12.31.07 at 12:59 pm
MS-DOS Bootable CD Images - Nice ides, but I can’t se my IDE C: drive with it, so what’s the use?
harald said,
01.02.08 at 8:17 am
Thanks. Worked great.
Hj Karim Pukimak said,
01.04.08 at 5:34 am
thanxs a lot
Rizak the Really Horrible said,
01.14.08 at 7:20 am
Thanks a bunch. One of the retirees (as of today) here has asked me to make a bootable DOS disk for him so he can start up his old 386 machine that got børked about a hundred years ago. This should work just fine.
Caleb said,
01.16.08 at 6:01 pm
Is there a way to boot Windows XP into MS-DOS WITHOUT using the command prompt?
betaluva said,
02.11.08 at 4:02 pm
thanks for providing the dos boot cd iso files, it will save people a lot of headaches and time.
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Tino said,
02.19.08 at 1:20 pm
Hi,
I’ve downloaded the DOS image in a CD and it worked perfectly, but I need to run another separate program now; is there a way to embeed the program I need into a new MSDOS image and generate a new bootable CD with the files I need included ? Please provide me information.
Regards,
Tino.
emarck said,
02.28.08 at 10:32 am
For anyboy who dont view your hard drive. It’s maybe because you run win 2k-xp or other system running on a ntfs partition or another partition type.
The dos view only the fat partition like fat16 fat32… I could find a program who can read ntfs file in dos… Search on google
emarck
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03.01.08 at 5:42 am
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nicola said,
03.08.08 at 2:06 am
Thanks for the good work done. These ISOs are really helpful.
steve said,
03.10.08 at 7:25 am
like Danny, .. downloaded MS-DOS 6.22 iso image.. Burn to a CD-R disc.. All OK.. It was able to boot from CD …. but I cant see all my drives..
rubbish really.
Guy said,
03.15.08 at 1:14 am
Hi Friends
I guess most of you dont really get it.
Dos 6.22 Does not suppot Fat32 Nor NTFS
Dos 6.22 Does not support Long File Names (more than 8.3)
Dos 6.22 Does not support more than 2GB partition.
Dos 6.22 Does not support GUI (Graphical User Interface) as we know it
No Start Menu.
But…………
(going from facts to my opinion)
Dos 6.22 is the best OS microsoft has ever developed.
Dos 6.22 Is what made Microsoft what it is today.
And if it wasnt for MAC and Intel we would be all still working with it today.
DOS RULES !!!!!!!!!
Microsoft has recently announced the “CORE” version of It’s Latest OS, Windows server 2008, That shows how nice our life could have been without GUI (and ofcourse to fight Unix and stuff)
and a suggestion….
Wanna see what a stable OS looks Like ?
Install WFW 3.11 and NT 3.51 “Under Dos 6.22″
Do it All with Virtuals PC’s or Virtual Server
The Image works just fine and even has CDrom driver in it.
10x alot
Guy
Peter said,
04.09.08 at 8:09 am
I can see loads of questions about if it is possible to access another drive, but no answers. So is it possible?
pida said,
04.16.08 at 9:32 am
For Everybody having problems with visibility of their hard drive:
1. create a primary DOS partition (fdisk)
2. format your new partition (format c:)
3. reboot
After that you will see your drive, but don’t forget - all data will be lost!
Amar said,
04.20.08 at 10:19 pm
I am gonna try it now. I haveburnt the exact image as I downloaded from net.
Sam S said,
04.22.08 at 5:09 am
Pardon my ignorance, but after downloading iso file, do you burn it with Nero as a “”Data Disc”, “Bootable Data Disc”, or “Disc Image”? I tried “Bootable Data Disc” & all it did was put file Dos6.22.iso on CD-R.
Thanks for the help.
Sam S said,
04.22.08 at 5:10 am
I forgot to mention that the CD will not boot.
NiteOwl said,
04.23.08 at 4:35 pm
Ok, the facts are…
Dos 6.22 iso is perfect.
Perfect for what it is intended to do, folks.
I had no problems, downloading, burning, booting to it and partitioning my hard drive.
Dos has many uses. Some of which are partition your HD, Format HD,
Scandisk, Check your disk for errors. And many more.
You can run other Dos application.
If this is what you want. Dos can do it.
Yes, you can add files to the ISO. Open the iso with an iso editing program like Ultra ISO or Win ISO. Add your files and Save then burn.
You do not have access to your NTFS C:/ drive. You do have access to A: and R:
If you want access to the NTFS, then get a winXP boot disk or use a dos based NTFS reader. google “dos based NTFS reader” Many will show up like Active@ Boot Disk or Avira NTFS4DOS. You can add Avira NTFS4DOS to the Dos 6.22 ISO.
Dos 6.22 will do most of you just fine. For those that want a GUI , I recommend Dos 5.0 it is better for C++ and Pascal.
I think i covered it all except….
You dont need to load the ISO into any burning software. Just double click it.
If you have software that can burn or edit/burn it, if should load it.
Gaurav said,
05.04.08 at 2:50 am
really happy to find them
thanks dude
Jas said,
05.04.08 at 6:02 pm
You image is crap, cant see c drive
Agent said,
05.07.08 at 11:36 am
Guys if u are using Windows xp and try run dos boot then ur self suck because usually are windows xp drivers formatted to NTFS partition not FAT16 or FAT 32
yhudong said,
05.15.08 at 5:44 pm
hi, i have problem about this dos 6.22, still need a disk floppy disk 1, can i have a Dos that 100% in cd drive only?
please help me on this thanks
joe00sg2001 said,
05.20.08 at 7:28 am
tks bro for driver
Russell Williams said,
05.26.08 at 10:51 pm
Just a humble “Thanks Friend”…
Elwood said,
05.29.08 at 11:58 am
Thanks! This is exactly what I was looking for! Needed to run a program from a boot disk on a laptop that does not have a floppy drive. Win ISO to copy the file to the image, worked perfectly! Took me a while to realize my file was on drive R:, though.
To reiterate what others have said: You can’t see your C: drive because it is likely formatted to NTFS. Don’t bash the image because you don’t understand OS’s.
Kev said,
05.30.08 at 4:22 am
!!!!!IMPORTANT INFO REGARDING OTHER DRIVES!!!!!!!
Please note the the creator stated that these are DOS Boot Disc’s, the creator did not state they would be fully functioning Operating Systems.
There are plenty of applications you can download to recognise NTFS format HDD’s.
There are plenty of applications you can download to recognise USB keyboards, mice on non-usb compliant Motherboards.
These DOS Boot-Up disc’s perform exactly as you would expect, additional functionality beyond the capabilty of Bootable DOS is third party.
Paul said,
06.07.08 at 6:04 am
I used to have a bootable Win95-DOS CD. I lost it and now I am searching for it again. I used to use that instead of MS-DOS, since the Win95-DOS supports larger drives.
Does anyone know where I can find one?
Thanks, Paul
help said,
06.11.08 at 4:57 pm
you can’t see drive c: because it is ntfs. guess if you don’t know that you shouldn’t be using boot disks…
Shawn said,
06.19.08 at 2:24 pm
Works great.
Installed in VMWare Workstation 6 no prblem.
I spent several hours trying to find one that actually worked.
This should be number one on Google’s search results.
Would’ve saved me a lot of time anyway.
Nasim Baledi said,
06.25.08 at 10:15 pm
Thank You.
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David Watts said,
08.28.08 at 2:41 am
Thanks very much mate. Used it to flash my motherboard as I couldn’t get the floppy drive to boot.
Procedure worked fine by putting the bios utility & data file on a separate CD & using them from the R: drive (i.e, swap the boot CD for the 2nd CD and run the flash utility from R:).
Dave.
Philip said,
08.28.08 at 3:05 pm
Thanks for the Iso image work great.
However I am trying to find a method to save small files somewhere, I’ve got a SD card and usb reader but I obviously need usb drivers. Does any one know if they exist for dos and how to use them?
Thanks again for the image and and help you can give
Philip
devo said,
08.28.08 at 7:44 pm
this program is compible with ntfs format?
AMA said,
09.07.08 at 4:28 am
I’ve downloaded MS-DOS 622, burnt it on a CD, and it boots up fine. But I can’t change the drive.
Drives A: and R: works well. I also have a 1.5GB FAT16 partition, named F:. But when I type F:, it says it’s an invalid drive.
Why?
ROFL said,
09.07.08 at 11:16 am
@Guy:
> Dos 6.22 is the best OS microsoft has ever developed
…
> Wanna see what a stable OS looks Like ?
> Install WFW 3.11 and NT 3.51 “Under Dos 6.22?
LOL! You’re certifiably nuts! Who gave that Amish guy a computer?
timtim said,
09.09.08 at 11:18 pm
You can buy ms-dos boot cds off of ebay. I got mine there for $3.00(Us). That was with shipping. I got the 6.22 version but i sent him a message and he said he can sell 7.10, 3.x and higher
Not Funny said,
09.26.08 at 12:05 pm
ROFL, there are many good things, what your brain is unable to realize, it’s good. Get used to it.
-LO LA -5 said,
09.29.08 at 4:20 pm
MS-DOS 6. iso image.. Burn
together 2 disketes
Partition Magic
will work
Dunga Bunga said,
09.30.08 at 2:21 am
The sequence is:
1. Download Alcohol 120% to read ISO and to burn to direct CD.
2. Run Fdisk.exe to dicover your HDD’s and Partitions by selecting option 4 before choosing option 1 or 2.
3. Run Format.exe /S /U to create a new FAT partion (Remember that your NTFS data will be lost)
Dunga
Raz said,
10.16.08 at 7:37 pm
This works! Thanks!
For those who are howling it’s not, they don’t know what DOS 6.22 is :))
nico said,
10.17.08 at 7:33 am
works gre
nico said,
10.17.08 at 7:34 am
works great
many tx
krukid said,
10.18.08 at 6:32 am
thanx
Channa said,
10.22.08 at 4:04 am
Thank you so much
Dos6.22 bootable cd is working,
But I cant create any directories in the hard drive and also I cant delete
anything in the hard drive
Is it because of NTFS ?
Please help me…..!
zainul arifin said,
11.09.08 at 11:47 pm
matur nuhun saget…
paul said,
11.24.08 at 10:16 pm
Thanks for the help.
Griff said,
11.29.08 at 5:11 am
My friend, you are a sodding hero!
I wished for something like this through most of the 90’s (and would have killed for possesion).
I had to flash the BIOS on an older machine to cope with > 137GB HDDs, but it would only flash from DOS - boot from this, flash it, and bingo.
Thanks, and thanks again!
Varun said,
12.10.08 at 6:38 am
Thanks a lot.. i was looking for it…
Ajay Dugad said,
12.22.08 at 9:48 am
I want some rograms to be loaded on the cd which is DOS bootable.
How could i make such cd. All programs are dos based. whether i can burn Cd directly in winxp or i need any third party sofware to do this.
Ajay
JamalUldeem said,
12.24.08 at 2:11 am
Thanx very mutch
Dave T said,
12.30.08 at 1:04 pm
Very Nice… Thanks a million, worked like a charm.
Dave T
Jason said,
12.31.08 at 1:41 pm
Can you boot with the 6.22 image then read a Flash Drive formatted FAT. I am trying to update the BIOS without a Floppy.
bill said,
12.31.08 at 4:29 pm
Worked great. I attched the ISO image and booted parallels on my mac. Created a C: drive and installed win98SE for some old games and software.
Perfect.
POPs said,
01.02.09 at 12:52 pm
Guys here is the way it is.
In order to boot to the dos C: prompt you have to have
DOS installed on the CD and an autoexec.bat and config.sys files.
The autoexec tells the computer how you want it to boot.
I have not downloaded any of these versions yet but will try
the DOS v5.0 and see if it will do what I need. I’m looking for
the DOS program and not a a boot able CD so I can make a
boot able CD with an autoexec.bat and config.sys. Today’s computers
has no DOS we can work with. DOS is where I started even before hard drives and the internet. People want post just a version of DOS cause its
owned by Microsoft . Any puter will make a boot able CD these days
but it will work on that computer..
POPs
Nicol said,
01.02.09 at 2:13 pm
Thank you SOOO much! You’re a life saver!! (Or at least a HUGE time saver!)
Adam said,
01.03.09 at 2:43 am
The reason you guys and gals can’t see you hdd is cause its in NTFS Format.
(windows 2k, xp and vista)
MS DOS can’t see NTFS formated partitions.
Only FAT32 and FAT16.