Program requires booting into DOS outside of Windows

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I need to boot into DOS (outside of Windows, NOT MS-DOS) to use a specific device progranning progam. I also need to have access to the serial port since that is how the device interfaces with the PC. I was aware of this site, but I don't find it that 'easy';
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Using MS-DOS won't cut it, even Win95 is probabaly a issue. Anyway, I won't take a chance since if there is a probem, the devices' firmware will get corrupted and I wind up with a 'brick'.

Suggestions?
 
You have winXP? You can format a floppy to boot into dos, just click the 'make startup disk' option.

BTW DOS is DOS. MS-DOS just means Microsoft DOS. You mean you do not want a DOS WINDOW inside of windows itself. There is also freedos which is just a clone of ms-dos. There really isnt any such thing as just "DOS"
 
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You have winXP? You can format a floppy to boot into dos, just click the 'make startup disk' option.
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Yup. Just think back during the time when computers had two 5.25" floppy drives and no hard drives. DOS was booted from a floppy and some of the commands are loaded into TSR.

This still works today. Just make a floppy (or even a thumb drive) with bootable DOS (FreeDOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, whatever you like) and give it a spin.

Go here for more information and some free DOS options: http://bootdisk.com/
 
You mean you do not want a DOS WINDOW inside of windows itself.
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Correct. The program has to be outside of Windows, not in a DOS window.
 
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He can make a bootable CD from a diskette image at bootdisk.com (win98sc.zip will work). I use Nero, but I'm sure other programs can do the same. Just copy the files needed to flash the firmware in the ISO filesystem before burning the CD -or- have a FAT/FAT32 formatted flash drive with the files plugged in before booting from the CD.
 
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