Booting into DOS

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In order to boot into DOS is it necessary to create a boot disk or is there
any other way like in Win98?
 
yeh,
recovery console
via your windows cd


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Put a floppy into the drive, go to My Computer, right click the A drive,
pick format from the menu, check the bottom box on the format screen...it
says "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"
 
To boot to a command prompt (DOS screen) hit F8 before windows loads, pick
safe mode command prompt.
You can also open a DOS window by using Start>Run>cmd
 
Tried both. Does "Deltree" not work?
NotMe said:
Put a floppy into the drive, go to My Computer, right click the A drive,
pick format from the menu, check the bottom box on the format screen...it
says "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"
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The Recovery Console does *not* boot to DOS and you can't do anything
DOS in the RC. Have you ever tried running a DOS program in there?

John
 
You cannot do it like in Windows 98. You need to create a DOS boot disk
or have DOS installed on the hard drive and have an entry to it in the
boot.ini file.

John
 
I noticed that you used the term DELTREE on this post. Are you attempting
to delete a folder and it's contents like you could on Win 98 systems?

The program will work (on a FAT32 formatted drive) but it isn't included on
a Win XP disk As it is an "external" program to DOS you would have to
create a 98 or ME system boot disk and copy it (DELTREE.EXE) from the
install CD to the floppy.

You can do the exact same thing from the Win XP command line by typing RD
C:\DUMP /S /Q (modified from http://malektips.com/2000wd0008.html)

This deletes the C:\DUMP directory and all subdirectories WITHOUT WARNING!

Use this command with caution! One slip-up and you could accidentally delete
important files from your hard drive just like you could do with the DELTREE
command.
 
Ultraglide said:
In order to boot into DOS is it necessary to create a boot disk or is
there any other way like in Win98?
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DOS boot disks will technically "work", but there are some things you don't
appear to be aware of.

First, and most importantly, DOS boot disks generally won't recognise XP
hard disks over 30 meg.

That's because disks of that size are normally NTFS, and DOS can't read them
without 3rd party drivers you'd remember paying for.

Second, NTFS is not FAT or FAT32. NTFS has permissions that FAT knows
nothing of.

Third, the XP or Recovery Console command prompt is *not* DOS. It's XP,
but without the pictures.

If you are planning to boot with a DOS diskette and run DOS commands on an
NTFS disk, the short answer is no. The disk won't even be recognised.
Stop, and learn.

If you boot with just about any bootable XP CD, and go to the Recovery
Console, there are a lot of very effective commands available, though by
default, the folders the Recovery Console can access are limited.

What exactly is it you wished to do?

HTH
-pk
 
Ultraglide said:
In order to boot into DOS is it necessary to create a boot disk or is
there any other way like in Win98?
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Not an XP OS question.

There's multitude of ways to make a boot diskette in the windows 98 OS.
Assuming the floppy is formatted and in the floppy diskette drive:

1. Press F8 at the proper time during windows startup, you will have an
msdos screen. Type in "sys a:"

2. Make a startup diskette, and eliminate all the files with windows
explorer except io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com

3. With windows explorer, right click the floppy drive. Select copy system
files.

4. Exit to dos while in windows, do same as noted in first instruction last
sentence.

5. Get a 98 boot image from bootdisk.com and restore to a floppy. (works
in 98 and XP).

If you're another ninny using fdisk for large capacity hard drives, don't

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044

Dave
 
Patrick Keenan said:
DOS boot disks will technically "work", but there are some things you
don't appear to be aware of.

First, and most importantly, DOS boot disks generally won't recognise XP
hard disks over 30 meg.

That's because disks of that size are normally NTFS, and DOS can't read
them without 3rd party drivers you'd remember paying for.

Second, NTFS is not FAT or FAT32. NTFS has permissions that FAT knows
nothing of.
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I'm not sure that you understand this. A DOS disk will not see an NTFS disk
at all.
 
granted dos and windowsnt
are different, but i interpreted
the question as one looking
for similar methodology for
accessing the file system.

the o.p. said nothing about
running dos programs.

if you have a better answer
then i would be pleased to read your
response to the o.p.

"DONT HAVE A COW MANN MANN"

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db ´¯`·.. > said:
granted dos and windowsnt
are different, but i interpreted
the question as one looking
for similar methodology for
accessing the file system.

the o.p. said nothing about
running dos programs.

if you have a better answer
then i would be pleased to read your
response to the o.p.

"DONT HAVE A COW MANN MANN"
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I'm not having a cow, I am in the spring calving heard, not the summer
calving bunch...

If you would have read the OP's post twice you would have known that he
wanted to boot to real DOS as: "...is it necessary to create a boot
disk or is there any other way like in Win98?"

Why he wants to boot to DOS or what he is trying to accomplish is beyond
me, but almost any answer other than "yeh, recovery console" is a better
answer, the Recovery Console has absolutely nothing to do with DOS and
only a handful of commands and directories are available in the RC.

John
 
Ultraglide said:
In order to boot into DOS is it necessary to create a boot disk or is there
any other way like in Win98?
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There is no way to reboot a WinXP PC into Real Mode DOS unless
you've set up a dual-boot system, or use a bootable MS-DOS diskette or
CD. And even then, you'd likely have no access to the hard drive's
contents, if using the NTFS file system. The WinNT family of 32-bit
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation,
has never used, included, or "ridden upon" MS-DOS. The Recovery
Console's CLI (Command Line Interface) is the closest you can come to
the old "DOS mode." What, precisely, are you trying to accomplish?


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db ´¯`·.. > said:
yeh,
recovery console
via your windows cd
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Wrong! The OP asked about booting into DOS, *NOT* the Recovery
Console's CLI.


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db ´¯`·.. > said:
you can access the disk
operating system and
navigate to the root drive
via the recovery console:
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So what? That isn't what the OP asked to do, is it?


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