Funny you mention that. I had to format a new hard drive a couple days ago and began wondering whether it would be easier to do it from a DOS prompt the old fashioned way (the only way I really know) or find some way in windows to do it. Fortunately, the drive came with a disk that made it easier than both and eliminated my dilema: although it seemed to be a dos type program on the disk. Some things that were not broke did not need fixing.
I continue to resist going to XP because I don't want to lose my DOS ability (and don't want to give up Word Perfect 5.1, which despite being ancient is till one of the best basic word processing programs ever written.