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Is there any way to boot to dos ONLY without booting from a floppy when
starting up a workstation installed with WinXP?
Thanx.
starting up a workstation installed with WinXP?
Thanx.
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starting up a workstation installed with WinXP?
Steven Sinclair said:Forgot to mention I have no access to a floppy drive on this
notebook
computer.
So, how would I accomplish a "fresh" OS install, without a
floppy if
there's no way to boot to DOS on this machine?
Steven said:Is there any way to boot to dos ONLY without booting from a floppy when
starting up a workstation installed with WinXP?
Thanx.
Steven said:Ooops...
Forgot to mention I have no access to a floppy drive on this notebook
computer.
8^)>
So, how would I accomplish a "fresh" OS install, without a floppy if there's
no way to boot to DOS on this machine?
Thanx.
Steven Sinclair said:Is there any way to boot to dos ONLY without booting from a floppy when
starting up a workstation installed with WinXP?
Thanx
Patrick Keenan said:"Steven Sinclair" <[email protected]>
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There is no DOS but there is Safe Mode, Command Prompt Only.
Yes, it's possible to start a system with a floppy boot disk.
However, on most systems, it's entirely pointless - because DOS
cannot deal with NTFS formatted disks.
Most XP systems with hard
disks over 40 gig are formatted NTFS.
IIRC, the XP format utility
can't format larger disks FATxx, only NTFS.
Is there any way to boot to dos ONLY without booting from a floppy when
starting up a workstation installed with WinXP?
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A boot diskette is a thing of the past, as all legitimate WinXP
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Wouldn't "onlt Win95 SR2 and later can manage FAT32." be clearer written ascquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) said:On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 09:33:21 -0700, Steven Sinclair
Yes, if you were to instrall a DOS or Win9x DOS mode as a "dual boot"
option - given that XP is NT, and NT contains no DOS or DOS mode.
However, this is not possible if the file system on the boot volume C:
is not one that the DOS mode can read. No DOS or DOS mode can boot
off, run on, or natively read/write NTFS; onlt Win95 SR2 and later can
manage FAT32. Also, no DOS or DOS mode can "see" Long File Names
natively, and whereas a Win9x DOS mode will halt the system to
protrect LFNs, MS-DOS will just go right ahead and mess them up.
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