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Not strictly true, Bob.. MS-DOS 7 beta was released during 1994 and duly
buried where IBM were still touting PC-DOS 7 during 1995 and maybe even
1996..
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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
"Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> PC-DOS comes with GHOST, but is fairly a fairly old IBM product and may
> not work on some modern PCs.
>
> MS-DOS is a newer Microsoft product (not new, just newer than PC-DOS). It
> has a better chance of working on modern PCs.
>
> If you can not get GHOST to work from a bootdisk made with the PC-DOS
> option, then you should try an the MS-DOS option. However, you will need
> to provide a copy of MS-DOS. The easiest way to do this is to make a
> bootable (DOS) floppy from within your version of windows. Even XP can do
> this. The particular flavor of DOS that will result if you make a
> bootable floppy from within XP is actually a variation of windows ME. If
> that does not work with GHOST, get a win98SE floppy and try that. Images
> of win98 floppies are available at www.bootdisk.com.
>
>
> "wolfman" <wolfman.1tnfpn@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
> news:wolfman.1tnfpn@pcbanter.net...
>>
>> What is the difference between PC-DOS and MS-DOS? I created a start up
>> disk using Ghost 2003 and I was given the option between PC and
>> MS-Dos.
>>
>>
>> W
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>> --
>> wolfman
>
>
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