Booting WinXP or 2K from DOS?

[Jack]

Is there a way to boot WinXP or Win2K, both on NTFS partitions from a Win98
startup disk DOS environment? Looking for a way to edit the autoexec.bat
file or config.sys to allow bypassing the whole Win98 startup with a
keypress or menu select and boot straight into Windows without ejecting any
media.

Any help, thanks.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If you start your machine with a Win98 boot disk then
you cannot launch Win2000. You must use a Win2000
boot disk - either a Win2000 floppy disk or the hard
disk itself.

 

[relic]

Is there a way to boot WinXP or Win2K, both on NTFS partitions from a
Win98 startup disk DOS environment? Looking for a way to edit the
autoexec.bat file or config.sys to allow bypassing the whole Win98
startup with a keypress or menu select and boot straight into Windows
without ejecting any media.

Any help, thanks.

Win98 ?? DOS ?? I thought they were dead.

Here's a way to boot XP from a floppy:
"HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305595&sd=tech

You may want NTFSDOS if you want to access/read the disks from DOS:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/NTFSDOS.shtml

Also, XP uses autoexec.nt and config.nt.

 

[Osprey]

Win98 ?? DOS ?? I thought they were dead.

Not at all;-) Win98SE suits me. You can keep your worms etc;-)

Osprey

 

[relic]

Not at all;-) Win98SE suits me. You can keep your worms etc;-)

Since most of the recent ones get in through IE/OE 6.0, why are you using
them?