I just updated this instruction file again, and the content is as follows:
README.TXT
The README File For My Super MS-DOS 7.10 Boot Disk
本MS-DOS 7.10超级启动盘说明文件
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Wengier 2003-4-1
Main Directory
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-> 1. Introduction
-> 2. Main Features
-> 3. System Requirements
-> 4. File List
-> 5. Technical Support
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| 1. Introduction |
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I spent quite a lot of time making this MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk by myself. It has many very powerful and practical functions. I believe it is much better than similar DOS boot disks on the Internet. A large number of practical functions and features have been added. Especially the comprehensive DOS startup LOGO screen, long file names, large hard disks, large memory, FAT32, NTFS, USB support, etc. I believe it is incomparable with most similar DOS boot disks. Let's introduce it below.
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| 2. Main Features |
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This MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk has many features. The following lists the top 20 most prominent features:
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- DOS Animated Startup Logo
- Multi-configuration startup menu
- Full Long File Name (LFN) support
- Full FAT12/16/32 support
- NTFS Drives support
- USB Drives support
- Large Hard Disk support
- Large Memory support
- Full CD/DVD Drives support
- RAM Drives support
- Chinese support
- Full mouse support
- High free conventional memory
- High stability of system
- Function of system maintenance
- Full support for archives
- Graphics File Manager included
- Able to launch Windows directly
- High compatibility and optimized for general use
- Many useful tools
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The following further introduces these 20 features in detail:
1 - DOS Animated Startup Logo
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It is modified based on the Windows boot screen. It contains the DOS startup logo and the animated scroll bar at the bottom. In this way, DOS also has its own startup LOGO screen!
2 - Multi-configuration startup menu
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When this MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk starts, there will be four options. The first option is to start in EMM386 mode, the second option is to start in UMBPCI mode, and the third option adds support for NTFS and USB drives. Because EMM386 may not work normally on a very few computers, and the main problem with UMBPCI is that it does not support some motherboards, so the user can choose between EMM386 and UMBPCI when starting. In this way, the user can better use this boot disk to start the computer. The fourth item in the startup menu is used to directly view this help file, and the system will automatically load the Chinese character system to support Chinese display. In addition, the user can also choose whether to automatically load programs such as PC-CACHE and Volkov Commander according to the system prompt when starting.
3 - Full Long File Name (LFN) support
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The DOSLFN long file name driver is used, so that this DOS boot disk can fully support and use long file names as soon as it starts, including Chinese long file names, just like in the DOS window of Win9x. Except for the internal commands of DOS, many other DOS programs, such as Volkov Commander 4.99, can now use long file names in pure DOS.
4 - Full FAT12/16/32 support
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MS-DOS 7.10 natively provides comprehensive support for FAT12/16/32 partitions, so the boot disk inherits this function. And the above-mentioned long file name driver enables support for VFAT (virtual FAT).
5 - NTFS Drives support
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By using the NTFS driver NTFSDOS, this boot disk can fully support NTFS drives, including long file names on NTFS partitions. When the third option (that is, the second-to-last option) is selected in the startup menu, the system will automatically load the NTFSDOS driver to support NTFS drives. It is also possible to manually load it at the command line, that is, execute NTFSDOS or NTFSDOS /U (/U means to enable Unicode support).
6 - USB Drives support
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When the third option (that is, the second-to-last option) is selected in the startup menu, the system will automatically load USB drivers such as DUSE and Motto Hairu when starting to provide support for USB drives. It supports many USB drives, such as USB hard disks, USB optical drives, USB floppy drives, USB ZIP drives, etc. For some computers, sometimes you can manually set the parameters of the drive to better support your USB drive. Or you can also manually load these drivers at the command line using commands such as CTLOAD and ADDEV, for example, execute CTLOAD DUSE.EXE DRIVES=2.
7 - Large Hard Disk support
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In addition to supporting standard hard disks, it also supports very large hard disks (over 100G), including Int13X extended partitions, etc. Similarly, all the tools provided in this boot disk (such as Free FDISK, etc.) also support large hard disks, so there is no need to worry that this boot disk cannot recognize your large-capacity hard disk.
8 - Large Memory support
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It supports large memory up to 2GB, and provides XMS and UMB memory to maximize the performance of the computer.
9 - Full CD/DVD Drives support
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By using the best general optical drive drivers (such as VIDE-CDD.SYS and USBCD.SYS, etc.), it supports various IDE/ATAPI as well as most SCSI/ASPI and even USB optical drives, and it is fast and occupies less memory. The FINDCD program自带 in the boot disk can also display the installed optical drive drive letters and set them to environment variables. For example, FINDCD /S can display and set all current optical drive drive letters.
10 - RAM Drives support
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By using the best memory virtual disk tool XMSDSK, a 4M memory disk is automatically provided, and its size can be arbitrarily modified at the command line through the XMSDSK command.
11 - Chinese support
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The Chinese support of this boot disk is reflected in many aspects. First, the long file name driver DOSLFN uses code page 936 (simplified Chinese) to fully support Chinese long file names; second, it comes with the compact XZL Chinese character system. After starting it, it can fully support the display of Chinese characters (including Chinese long file names) in DOS. At the same time, this instruction file is also in Chinese, so you can directly use commands such as MORE and EDIT at the command line to view its content after starting the Chinese character system, or you can directly select the fourth item in the startup menu when booting to automatically open this file for viewing.
12 - Full mouse support
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By using the best mouse driver CuteMouse 1.9, it supports various serial port and PS/2 mice, etc., and it is very fast and occupies less memory; the universal use of MouseClip program enables the easy use of the mouse in the DOS command line, and it supports copy/paste and the function of simulating direction keys.
13 - High free conventional memory
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After starting the system with this boot disk, although many practical functions are loaded, the free conventional memory is usually still as high as 625K-630K, and the free UMB memory is usually also tens of K. In this way, when you start it and run any program, there will be no memory shortage prompt, because there is still a large amount of free memory available.
14 - High stability of system
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This boot disk comes with KILLER and ESCAPE programs, which greatly enhance the stability of the system:
KILLER: It can automatically intercept incorrect specifications in running programs and return to DOS to prevent system instability or crashes;
ESCAPE: It can press the F12 key to return to DOS in any situation to prevent the system from crashing. It can be seen that KILLER and ESCAPE are complementary. The former is proactive by the system, and the latter is proactive by the user to maximize the enhancement of system stability.
15 - Function of system maintenance
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In addition to the commonly used DOS disk tools such as CHKDSK, FORMAT, FDISK, etc., the boot disk also comes with many practical system maintenance tools such as BOOTPART and SRC Tools.
BOOTPART is a command-line startup partition manager with very powerful functions; SRC Tools can save/restore/check the boot sector/MBR/FAT of the disk to well maintain the system and disk.
16 - Full support for archives
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The boot disk comes with practical archive extraction tools such as PKUNZIP 2.50, UNARJ, EXTRACT, UNDISK, etc., and most of them support long file names. Therefore, this boot disk supports various common formats of archives and disk images such as ZIP, ARJ, CAB, IMG, etc., which greatly facilitates use.
17 - Graphics File Manager included
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The boot disk comes with Volkov Commander (VC) file manager, a very powerful, practical and famous file management tool, with a graphical interface operation and fully supports long file names. After the system starts, it will automatically prompt whether to start VC, that is, the following information is displayed:
Press ENTER in 2 seconds if you want to start Volkov Commander..
If you press the Enter key within 2 seconds, VC 4.99 will be automatically started; otherwise, it will not be started automatically, but it can be manually started at the command line with the VC command at any time.
18 - Able to launch Windows directly
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This MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk provides the function of directly launching Windows, including versions such as Win3.x and Win9x, and is closely integrated with Windows. The specific method is to enter the WIN command at the DOS command line to start the corresponding version of Windows. (Note: It has been enhanced to cooperate highly with Windows by using the 3xStart program). And as described in the above features, this MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk fully supports functions such as long file names, FAT32 partitions, large hard disks, etc., so there will be no incompatibility with Windows.
Note: If you use a floppy disk to boot this boot disk, please make sure that the floppy disk is in the floppy drive when starting Windows. To enter the Windows 9x interface, first enter the folder where Windows is located, and then run the WIN command.
19 - High compatibility and optimized for general use
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This MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk has fully considered the issues of compatibility and universality from the beginning of production, and has carried out various optimized configurations according to this requirement. Therefore, it not only has many powerful and practical functions, but also has very strong compatibility and universality. After starting it, you can run various DOS programs (if any), including Windows installation programs, etc. And through various configurations, as long as the system requirements listed below are met, it should be able to work normally on various different computers.
20 - Many useful tools
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This boot disk contains many very practical tools, such as UMBPCI, PERUSE, CWSDPMI, PC-CACHE, etc., which can provide functions such as DPMI services, disk buffering, music playback, image viewing, screen display control, etc. For details, please see the following file list and their own instruction files.
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| 3. System Requirements |
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Minimal requirements:
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- 386 or higher CPU
- More than 8M memory
- CGA or higher display
- A 1.44M floppy drive (Note: A virtual floppy drive can also be used, such as a boot CD-ROM simulating a floppy disk)
Recommanded configuration:
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- 586/Pentium or AMD Athlon and above CPU
- More than 32M memory
- VGA/SVGA or higher display
- At least one 1.44M floppy drive (Note: A virtual floppy drive can also be used, such as a boot CD-ROM simulating a floppy disk)
- A COM or PS/2 mouse
- Hard disk (including large hard disks, and FAT12/FAT16/FAT32/NTFS partitions in it, the number is unlimited)
- Optical drive (various IDE/SCSI/USB optical drives, the number is unlimited)
- Sound Blaster or compatible sound card
Note: This boot disk is best used in real mode, and should not be used in virtual machines (especially Virtual PC), because the bugs of them (virtual machines) themselves will cause this boot disk to fail to start normally.
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| 4. File List |
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The following is the list of all files in this MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk:
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ADDEV.COM A tool to directly load device drivers at the DOS command line, which can be used with DELDEV
ANSI.COM The best ANSI replacement program, very powerful and practical
APATH.COM A simple PATH path modification tool
ASC.COM ASCII table display, which can be called by pressing Alt+A key at any time after loading
ASPICD.SYS General SCSI/ASPI optical drive driver
ASPIOHCI.SYS Iomega's OHCI interface USB drive driver
ASPIUHCI.SYS Iomega's UHCI interface USB drive driver
ATTRIB.COM The most powerful and practical ATTRIB replacement program version 1.09
AUTOEXEC.BAT Startup batch file
CDPLAY.COM A very compact and convenient CD player, which can be called by pressing Ctrl+P key at any time after loading
CHOICE.COM Choice command, which will prompt selectable items after execution
CLOAKING.EXE A program that provides memory CLOAKING API version 2.01, which can greatly reduce the memory occupation of programs such as MSCDEX
CLOCK.COM A very good TSR clock software, and supports alarm function
COMMAND.COM MS-DOS 7.10 command processor, supports long file names
CONFIG.SYS Startup configuration file
CP936UNI.TBL Code page 936 for simplified Chinese of DOSLFN 0.32n
CSOUND.COM Speaker tool, which can play and set the sound playback of the speaker
CTLOAD.COM A tool to directly load device drivers (such as optical drive drivers, etc.) at the DOS command line
CTMOUSE.EXE CuteMouse version 1.9, the best and most practical mouse driver under DOS
CWSDPMI.EXE The best DPMI memory driver under DOS
DELDEV.COM Delete the device driver loaded by ADDEV from memory, that is, cancel that driver
DELTREE.COM The most powerful and practical DELTREE replacement program version 1.02
DI1000DD.SYS USB hard disk driver in Motto Hairu
DOSKEY.COM The best DOSKEY replacement program version 1.6, which provides command history, macro definition, auto-completion, etc.
DOSLFN.COM The most powerful and practical long file name driver under DOS, which provides support for Chinese and English long file names
DOSVER.COM A practical tool to set the DOS version number
DREADY.COM Judge the drive status, such as checking whether there is a CD in the optical drive, whether the floppy disk is write-protected, etc.
DUSE.EXE USB drive driver under DOS, which can drive USB hard disks, USB optical drives, USB floppy drives, etc.
DOSET.CAB Contains some system tools provided by MS-DOS 7.10 (such as SYS, CHKDSK, FORMAT, etc.)
ECHO.SYS A tool to display text in CONFIG.SYS
EMM386.EXE A tool provided by MS-DOS 7.10 to provide UMB and EMS memory
ESCAPE.EXE A tool to return to the DOS command line by pressing the F12 key at any time to prevent crashes
EXTRACT.EXE A tool to extract CAB archives
FIND.COM The best replacement program for the find tool
FINDCD.EXE A self-compiled practical program to find optical drive drive letters
FINDRAMD.EXE A practical tool to find memory disk drive letters
HIMEM.SYS A tool provided by MS-DOS 7.10 to provide XMS memory, supports large memory (up to 2GB)
HIRAM.EXE Cooperates with UMBPCI to add HIMEM.SYS to UMB memory
IFSHLP.SYS Enhanced file management driver, provides VFAT file system support for Win9x (required when starting Win9x)
IO.SYS MS-DOS 7.10 system startup file
KILLER.EXE A tool to automatically intercept illegal instructions to prevent crashes
KPUSH.COM Keyboard ASCII table query and cleaning tool
LFNXLAT.386 Provides support for long file names under Windows 3.x for the DOSLFN long file name driver
LOCATE.COM The most powerful and practical file positioning tool version 1.30, supports long file names
LOGO.SYS MS-DOS 7.10 startup LOGO screen
LOWDMA.SYS Provides ISA DMA UMB support for floppy disks
MCD.EXE A practical tool to create and switch folders, supports long file names
MOUSCLIP.EXE A very practical tool to use the mouse for copy/paste and simulate direction keys under DOS (including the DOS command line)
MSCDEX.EXE An optical drive extension driver matched with CLOAKING, which occupies very little memory
MSDOS.SYS MS-DOS 7.10 system startup configuration file
NSET.COM A tool to obtain variables from the output to set
NTFSDOS.EXE NTFS drive driver under DOS
PC-CACHE.COM A compact and practical disk buffer program, which can greatly speed up startup and disk reading and writing
PC-EXT2X.OVL Overlay file required by PC-CACHE for loading buffer
PC-WNERR.OVL Overlay file required by PC-CACHE for Windows startup
PERUSE.COM A very good DOS screen scrolling tool
PKUNZIP.EXE A ZIP file extraction tool, supports long file names
QV1.EXE A compact multimedia viewer QuickView 1.03b, which can play music and animations, view pictures, etc.
RAMFD.EXE A driver to drive USB floppy drives in the form of virtual floppy disks in Motto Hairu
README.TXT The instruction file of this MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk (that is, this file)
SHAREMU.COM A file sharing virtual program to start programs that require file sharing (such as Word 6.0 in Windows 3.x)
SHUTDOWN.COM A very good command-line ATX power supply restart/soft shutdown program
SORT.COM A compact sorting tool
SRCBOOT.COM A small tool to save/restore/compare the boot sector of the disk in command line
SRCFAT.COM A small tool to save/restore/compare the file allocation table (FAT) of the disk in command line
SRCMBR.COM A small tool to save/restore/compare the master boot record (MBR) of the disk in command line
STRINGS.COM Batch/command line enhancement tool
SUBST.EXE A very compact program to set virtual drives
TM.EXE A compact and practical tool to set the keyboard and display
UMBPCI.SYS A powerful and practical driver to provide UMB memory version 3.45
UNARJ.EXE ARJ file extraction tool
UNDISK.EXE IMG and other disk image file extraction tool
USBASPI.SYS USB driver in Motto Hairu
USBCD.SYS USB/SCSI optical drive driver in Motto Hairu
VC.CAB Volkov Commander version 4.99, a very powerful and practical file manager, supports long file names
VIDE-CDD.SYS The best general IDE/ATAPI optical drive driver under DOS, which occupies very little memory
WAIT.COM A waiting tool for batch files
WBAT.COM A very powerful and practical batch dialog designer, supports mouse operation
WRITEXT.EXE A powerful ECHO display enhancement tool, which can set the display position and color, etc.
XMSDSK.EXE The best virtual memory disk tool, very convenient and practical, and occupies very little memory
XZL.COM A compact XZL Chinese character system to display Chinese characters
ZENO.EXE A very good screen display acceleration software
Files in DOSET.CAB archive:
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BOOTPART.EXE Startup partition manager version 2.50, powerful functions
CHKDSK.EXE Command-line disk check tool provided by MS-DOS 7.10
DEBUG.EXE Debugging program provided by MS-DOS 7.10
EDIT.HLP Help file of EDIT
EDIT.COM EDIT command provided by MS-DOS 7.10, which can edit large files, text/binary files and multiple files
FDISK.EXE Free FDISK 1.20, powerful hard disk partitioning tool
FDISK.INI Configuration file of Free FDISK
FDISKPT.INI Configuration file of Free FDISK
FORMAT.EXE Formatting program provided by MS-DOS 7.10
MEM.EXE Memory information viewing tool provided by MS-DOS 7.10
MORE.COM Paging display tool provided by MS-DOS 7.10
SYS.COM DOS system file transmission program provided by MS-DOS 7.10
Files in VC.CAB archive:
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Contains Volkov Commander 4.99 program
VC.EXE Main program of VC 4.99
VC.INI Configuration file of VC 4.99
VC.MNU Menu file of VC 4.99
VC.OVL Overlay file of VC 4.99
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| 5. Technical Support |
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This MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk is self-made by me (that is, Wengier). If you have any questions or suggestions, you are welcome to contact me:
My email (E-mail): wengierwu@hotmail.com or wengierwu@sohu.com
You can also go to the United DOS Forum to ask questions or discuss. The forum address is: http://dosbbs.2ya.com/
Note: The latest download address of this MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk is:
http://newdos.yginfo.net/dosware/mdos71bd.zip
