Thanks Richard, I only assumed, that word again, that it was dos as the only .exe files that were there had the little box around that usually denotes that it is a dos file. Anyway, Windows does detect it as a drive, but it shows there is nothing on the drive. This may have been due to the fact that it is the usb that was being configured as the usb booting disk, because now when I fire up the computer I get a non valid boot error coming up and have to unplug, press the shift or any key to continue, before she will load.
Thanks very much for your efforts. Sorry about reply delay, had to get beauty sleep. At my age it is needed. Plus had to stop tearing out the little hair I had left.
Des