Dos in XP??????

I have an old Oscilloscope probe from Radio shack from back around 1996 or so. I dug it out the other day and tried too install the software for it on XP. It said it needed dos to install the program. Is there any way to install it on my XP machine? If you have any suggestions you can email me at dipstk@sbcglobal.net.

Thanks,

Mike

 

Is the software on floppy or cd?

If it's on floppy access the disk in windows explorer and see what files are in it. One of them will be the install software. You should also have a readme file, read it it should have instructions in it. If it's not there come back here and let us know.

 

theres a free program called dosbox (search on google) this may help

 

You can download Dosbox 0.63 here:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4381.html

if you have problem with it just tell me i have been using this program over
one year.....

 

IF it needs "MS-DOS v5 or greater" and the 'emulator' DOS which is a DOS environment substitute doesn't help then you would have to install a version of DOS that it requires. But you would have to re-install everything starting with DOS to create a stable platform.
I do that for troubleshooting boot problems, working on virus infectors and also just in case sh*t hits the fan using freewares like readntfs, copy important files from the NTFS partitions to the FAT partition. Of course my setups are generally for testing/analysis purposes both works both ways.
So lets say you got a 3 floppies to install DOS 6.22 (latest), boot to the floppy with the first disk in, let it configure(create a partition of 2048MB and format it FAT16). During the installation insert each disk when prompted, once installation is completed you could even use a generic CD-ROM driver diskette to install DOS CD-ROM drivers, etc. Then boot to XP CD using the CDROM drive as the first boot device and install XP, XP would see the FAT16 and FAT32 partitions but can't really make use of it entirely. Anyhow You could create a new primary partition using a 3rd party software but Windows (all versions) FDISK utility would create the additional partition as an extended partition but since the XP would use the FAT16 C drive as the System Partition (where boot files reside) it would still be multi-boot, etc etc etc....