USB boot disk is in a constant state of flux and has been since 09/01/2013, with changes every week or so. Stop by often to see the current changes.
What’s new. The “F.Y.I. ” button
Last update 6/30/2013
This site is “speekit” friendly. This is a google chrome app add on. Just hi-light the text an click the speaker icon next to the address bar. some misspelled words helps “Speekit” sound correctly.
More projects to play with on the download page. New “windows password recovery”
You will need a USB drive formatter. So down load “rufus”. Get it here at http://rufus.akeo.ie/ and installed it to your desk top. Check to make sure that your version has a box choice that has the word “FreeDOS”. (Forth line from the bottom.) A few of the older versions did not. You may have to click on the down arrow in the box to see all of the options. See picture to the right. Plug in a USB- drive under 32 gigs in to your computer and Launch Rufus. Rufus will populate most all of the boxes of information about your USB drive. Your information will be different then mine. Make no change to the top line. Use the drop down menus on the next 3 lines so as to match the picture at right. Type “Freedos” in the New volume label box or what ever name that you want for your USB drive name. Move to the forth line from the bottom and Select “FreeDOS” from pull down menu. Then click that start button. And in a few moments your drive becomes a bootable drive.
What you will see when the USB drive boots up? You will see 6 or 8 lines of text about freedos that is not going to mean very munch to you. The last line You will see will be C:\>. Take your keyboard and type “dir” and press the ENTER key. (do not type in the quotes) You will see a list of file names. And that’s about it for this step. This is a bare bones file system. So it is very boring. But this is enough to tell you that your USB drive is working. At this point you are over the hard part. Now comes the fun part. next add contents to your USB drive.
O.K. now you can use some new contents for you USB drive. Something simple and easy to use. Now down load this file call“USB_PDP01.ZIP”here. This is an all menu and mouse drive display. Great for beginners that knows nothing about FreeDOS. Place it in a folder by its self and called PDP (or what ever) unzip it. Once it is all unzipped, navigate to inside of the folder. Do “select all” (ctl-A) Then do “copy” (clt-c). Open the USB drive to the main directory and paste” (clt-v) the contents from the unziped file. There will be several files and several folders. Now you are done. Reboot the computer with USB drive and boot it as was shown in step two. you should see a start up menu like the picture to the right.
Just hi-light the text an click the speaker icon next to the address bar. some misspelled words helps “Speekit” sound correctly.
Check to make sure that your version has a box choice that has the word “FreeDOS”. (Forth line from the bottom.) A few of the older versions did not. You may have to click on the down arrow in the box to see all of the options. See picture to the right. Plug in a USB- drive under 32 gigs in to your computer and Launch Rufus. Rufus will populate most all of the boxes of information about your USB drive. Your information will be different then mine. Make no change to the top line. Use the drop down menus on the next 3 lines so as to match the picture at right. Type “Freedos” in the New volume label box or what ever name that you want for your USB drive name. Move to the forth line from the bottom and Select “FreeDOS” from pull down menu. Then click that start button. And in a few moments your drive becomes a bootable drive. 
Take your keyboard and type “dir” and press the ENTER key. (do not type in the quotes) You will see a list of file names. And that’s about it for this step. This is a bare bones file system. So it is very boring. But this is enough to tell you that your USB drive is working. At this point you are over the hard part. Now comes the fun part. next add contents to your USB drive.
This is an all menu and mouse drive display. Great for beginners that knows nothing about FreeDOS. Place it in a folder by its self and called PDP (or what ever) unzip it. Once it is all unzipped, navigate to inside of the folder. Do “select all” (ctl-A) Then do “copy” (clt-c). Open the USB drive to the main directory and paste” (clt-v) the contents from the unziped file. There will be several files and several folders. Now you are done. Reboot the computer with USB drive and boot it as was shown in step two. you should see a start up menu like the picture to the right.