Booting in ms dos prompt

[Haven]

My pc recently died after i installed a game (black and white) and was
told to uninstall a windows hotfix (264141 i think or something like
that) after uninstalling the hotfix i was told to reboot my pc, when i
rebooted the pc it loaded the restarted itself before loading the login
screen.

I've now started my pc with a boot disk but i cant get out of a: drive.
My pc can't see any of the other drives only whats on the disk.

I can fix my pc by re-installing windows from a recovery disk but that
means formating my drive. If i can get into c: drive via dos i might be
able to run a system restore to before i installed the game.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[Admiral Q]

XP is not based on MS-DOS, and using the default file system for NT OS's of
NTFS, of course, your MS-DOS boot floppy will not see NTFS drives (at least
without 3rd party intervention - systernals has a free reader, but the
reader/writer cost money). The proper procedure is to boot from the XP CD
and choose to go into the "recovery console", but since you most likely have
a slimmed down, cheap recovery CD instead of the full OEM install CD, then
you won't have this either - so as they say, you are stuck, unless you have
a friend you can take your drive out and put in as a slave drive in his/her
PC, you can at least save your important files - other than that, you'll
have to bite the bullet, format and reinstall - starting all over. If you
had at least done some type of critical file backup of important files, they
may be older, but not completely lost.

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[David Candy]

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q310/9/94.ASP
The floppies include the recovery console.