MS-DOS found on my machine

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This is very curious to me.

I was scanning my puter with Norton SystemWorks Custom Cleanup Wizard and I
found a full set of MS-DOS files in a temp directory. The files are listed in
the temp location under the label Disk 1 - Disk 2. there are even 2
AUTOEXEC.BAT and AUTOEXE2.BAT files there as are most of the usual files
needed to run MS-DOS.

What are these? Where did they come from? Is it safe to delete them?

This is wierd.
 
Michael said:
This is very curious to me.

I was scanning my puter with Norton SystemWorks Custom Cleanup Wizard and I
found a full set of MS-DOS files in a temp directory. The files are listed in
the temp location under the label Disk 1 - Disk 2. there are even 2
AUTOEXEC.BAT and AUTOEXE2.BAT files there as are most of the usual files
needed to run MS-DOS.

What are these? Where did they come from? Is it safe to delete them?

This is wierd.
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Might not be too weird. Where did you get this computer?
From a local mom-and-pop OEM? From all appearances, there
is probably nothing harmful going on. For expediency, some
OEM dealers will install copies of drive images that can be
set up for different OS's. And sometimes, the files for the
non-installed OS's do not get deleted.
 
I have a one year old Dell computer and Partition Magic shows a
partition formated as a "CP/M, Concurrent DOS, CTOS" disk.

Words from the ark & I'm so old I even recognise them <g>.

Alan Lloyd
 
=?Utf-8?B?TWljaGFlbCBDLg==?= said:
I was scanning my puter with Norton SystemWorks Custom Cleanup Wizard and I
found a full set of MS-DOS files in a temp directory. The files are listed in
the temp location under the label Disk 1 - Disk 2. there are even 2
AUTOEXEC.BAT and AUTOEXE2.BAT files there as are most of the usual files
needed to run MS-DOS.

What are these? Where did they come from? Is it safe to delete them?
Click to expand...

All files in temp can be safely deleted.
 
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