O.k.  the short of it is my family is runing a old IBM PERSONAL 300 GL with dual os, windows 98 and Ms-dos, when you turn puter on it ask if you want to boot normal, safe, etc. , etc., and 8. Previous version of MS-Dos , a POS (point of sale) retail program from the early 90's called ABC  the COMPUTER is fine but starting to show signs of aging and some bugs, I have the MS-Dos 6.22 bootable disketter and a installation diskette of the standalone  release 7.0 , I am trying to load it onto a windows xp computer and when i hooked up floppy drive and loaded the boot disk then the standalone diskette it said load from tape drive which we have but it is in the IBM computer  i found one on ebay reasonable and i recently backed up to the tape drive succesfully, i just want to make sure this is going to work before much more money and time are invested. Is it possible to download the program from the Ibm I can enter windows and FIND files on harddrive for abc software but i am sure that isn't all of them. we have about 1,500 Accounts Recievable, and 30,000 INVENTORY Items and no easy way to transfer them to a new POS or would have already done so. Have contacted serval POS standalone retail business that say they can transfer files to new system but leave cost to amount of time spent, could be 5,000 to 10,000 dollars so I was trying to figure it out any help will be much appreciated and welcomed again thanks .MS DOS needs to reside on C: only...
Probably the main reason your experiment didn't work on the XP PC...
Consider re-doing things as set up and/or running it in a Virtual PC enviornment.

Let us know...Will try virtual pc environment but to be honest I really don;t care if any windows os is runing other than to acces certain files and to backup regularly.  On the POS at the store it always goes to C:\> and then you type ABC to enter a very uasthetic but dependable POS, A\R, Iventory File Maintance  software package  I played around again on it earlier today and got the 7.0 release to take and it wanted the T-Colorado 3000 tape drive to finish update. I gues the bottom line is how can i clear the Harddrive properly, have a few links from here but no specific, get Ms-dos to boot on the C:\> drive an access my ABC POS , or please any suggestions on a POS that can transfer already existing data  reasonably


you guys are great thanks

shawnricky