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Each computer would have its own distinct hardware and its own version of MS-DOS, a situation similar to the one that existed for CP/M, with MS-DOS emulating the same solution as CP/M to adapt for different hardware platforms. So there were many different original equipment manufacturer (OEM) versions of MS-DOS for different hardware. But the ...
The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability to display information about, create, and delete DOS partitions or logical DOS drive. It can also install a standard master boot record on the hard drive. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 3.2 and later and IBM PC DOS 2.0 releases and later. [1]
This is accessible only by formatting a floppy as an "MS-DOS startup disk". Files like the driver for the CD-ROM support were deleted from the Windows Me bootdisk and the startup files (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS) no longer had content. This modified disk was the base for creating the MS-DOS image for Windows XP.
CONFIG.SYS: This contains statements to configure DOS and load device drivers. Standard DOS utility programs: APPEND: Set a search path for data files. ASSIGN: Redirect requests for disk operations on one drive to a different drive. ATTRIB: Set or display file attributes. BACKUP / RESTORE: simple backup and restore utilities.
Digital Research releases DR DOS 3.31, supporting hard disk partitions up to 512 MB. DR DOS is ROMable, unlike MS-DOS. [351] [352] June: Microsoft releases Windows/286, version 2.1, which replaces Windows 2.03. It provides an extra 50 KB above the 640 KB DOS limit, when running on a system with more than 1 MB of extended memory available.
DriveSpace (initially known as DoubleSpace) is a disk compression utility supplied with MS-DOS starting from version 6.0 in 1993 and ending in 2000 with the release of Windows Me. The purpose of DriveSpace is to increase the amount of data the user could store on disks by transparently compressing and decompressing data on-the-fly.
SmartDrive (or SMARTDRV) is a disk caching program shipped with MS-DOS versions 4.01 through 6.22 and Windows 3.0 through Windows 3.11. [1] It improves data transfer rates by storing frequently accessed data in random-access memory (RAM). [2] Early versions of SmartDrive were loaded through a CONFIG.SYS device driver named SMARTDRV.SYS. [1]
MS-DOS 7.1 adds FAT32 support [11] for larger than 2GB and up to 2TB per volume, [12] and MS-DOS 7.0 and earlier versions of MS-DOS only support FAT12 and FAT16. [13] Logical block addressing (LBA) is supported in MS-DOS 7 for accessing larger hard disks, unlike earlier versions which only supported cylinder-head-sector (CHS)-based addressing.