MS-DOS 5 also supported 2.88MB 3.5" floppy disks as well as hard disks up to 2GB in size. Microsoft QBasic also shipped in DOS 5 replacing GW-BASIC. A full screen text editor EDIT has replaced the former line editor EDLIN supplied since the early days of DOS. Because of OS limitations, Windows XP restricts the creation of UEFI bootable drives to MBR mode.MS-DOS 5 introduced numerous new features and was a flagship release for Microsoft. *Since version 1.3.2, Rufus support UEFI as well as GPT for installation media, meaning that it will allow you to install Windows 7, Windows 8 or Linux in full EFI mode. You can even use it to create a Windows 8 installation USB drive. You can also use Refus to create a bootable USB from an ISO image. This will erase the contents of your USB drive. Check “Create a bootable disk using” checkbox and select MS-DOS or FreeDOS.Connect a USB drive to the computer and select it in the Device box.Now we can create a bootable USB drive with DOS in a very simple way: Download Rufus Rufus doesn’t need any installation so you just launch it after you downloaded it. Rufus will not split USB to multiple partitions so the remaining portion of the drive can still be used. Here we have a tool Rufus to do this simple but not easy job for us. Burning ISO to USB can be a headache for a lot of people, and oftentimes it will split a USB drive into two partitions. If you still need DOS to do some operations, you can create a bootable DOS USB drive. However, it is extremely hard to find a floppy disks with MS-DOS or a computer can read floppy disks anymore.
BIOS updates, firmware-updating utilities often require you to boot into DOS and run the utility. Or you need data recovery software work only under DOS. Does we still need DOS for somethings? Yes, if you are still using Ghost for backup and restore.
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