Failed to create MS-DOS bootable USB drive on Windows 10

[BrazilianJoe]

I am Windows10 build 10130 64 bits.

I tried to create a bootableMS-DOS USBdriveusing Rufus, but it balked with an error where it failed to find a .DLL to copy to the disk.

inspecting the disk it seems the partitioning/formatting went OK, but only the LOCALE folder was created, and no files were copied.

I guess Windows 10 removed or moved some files which Rufus relies on to create the bootable disks.

[bjpafa]

RUFUS WITH WINDOWS 10 AFTER 9845 RELEASE.

I repeated the procedure with a HP G6 i7 notebook. Stopped after install new partition.
Hp support changed the HD for a new one.
Just 10130 and never get there.

[pbatard]

Care to provide a FULL LOG from Rufus? Thanks.

[pbatard]

Again, could you please provide the log from Rufus? You just have to click on the Log button after creating the USB? Also, did you try FreeDOS instead of MS-DOS?

[pbatard]

Well, a log would have been nice, but I have now reinstalled Windows 10 preview to reproduced the issue. Microsoft appears to have removed diskcopy.dll which is the library that contains the MS-DOS floppy image we extract the MS-DOS files. So I'll be modifying Rufus to remove MS-DOS support for Windows 10.

Oh and before you ask, no it is not possible to embed the MS-DOS files in Rufus as they are copyrighted by Microsoft and can't be redistributed without a license, which is the whole reason why we had to fetch them from an existing library. But that's not a big loss anyway, since FreeDOS works just fine in Windows 10 and should be preferred over MS-DOS anyway.

[mirh]

FreeDOS still fails at some BIOS related tasks, for the records.
But I hope they'll be able to overcome this in the incoming 1.2 version.

[pbatard]

Have you contacted the FreeDOS mailing list about this, with the specifics of the BIOS related tasks that fail?

Unless you report your findings to them, it will never be fixed.

[mirh]

I hate mailing lists :p
Anyway, I know it's not your business to fix it. It was just a detail.

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