booting to DOS

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John said:
if I can find an old DOS 6.0 disk, is it possible to boot a
Celeron-based PC using DOS?
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Yes, but if the hard drive has Windows XP installed on it, it's probably an
NTFS drive, and it will therefore be invisible to DOS, unless you are also
running special software.
 
John said:
if I can find an old DOS 6.0 disk, is it possible to boot a Celeron-based PC
using DOS?
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You can find any number of DOS boot disks here:
www.bootdisk.com. If you select a DOS7 disk (=Win98)
then you will be able to access FAT32 file systems, and
if you run ntfsdos.exe (www.sysinternals.com) then you
can read NTFS partitions.
 
Pegasus said:
You can find any number of DOS boot disks here:
www.bootdisk.com. If you select a DOS7 disk (=Win98)
then you will be able to access FAT32 file systems, and
if you run ntfsdos.exe (www.sysinternals.com) then you
can read NTFS partitions.
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FYI: Looks like MS now owns sysinternals. If you haven't tried that link
in awhile, check it out! I thougth I was being misdirected at first! <g>.

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John said:
if I can find an old DOS 6.0 disk, is it possible to boot a Celeron-based PC
using DOS?
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Yes, but the hard drive will almost certainly be inaccessible as DOS 6
is incapable of reading FAT32 or NTFS partitions.

Good luck

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