DR-DOS - wdf?

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I installed Nero Premium on my pc, it asked me to reboot - which i did.
Since then i'm getting a DR-DOS a:\> prompt ... where do i go from here?

I'm a novice pc user so don't go using technical terms lol

Thanks for any help.

Diz
 
I should add to the above that i'm using Windows XP Home.

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Take the floppy disk out of the drive and reboot again. Bet that you'll
be back in Windows in no time. :-)

Sam
 
I am just guessing here......
I am guessing that DR stands for disasrer recovery, and you were asked if
you wanted to create a disaster recovery disc in the course of your install
of Nero. Since you do not have a floppy drive, a DR disk is not possible
and you should have answered no to the question. There should be a method of
escape from your dilema. What happens if you type "exit" (without the
quotes) at the A:\> prompt?
 
M8RIX said:
I am just guessing here......
I am guessing that DR stands for disasrer [sic] recovery,
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My guess is that DR stands for DOS Replacement.

Which it was.
 
Many utility programs provide for creating floppies as a means of running
utilites when computer will not boot.

In creating the floppy - in order for it to act as a system disk (boot
disk) - usually DR-DOS or PC-DOS is used rather than MS-DOS.

Most likely during install you selected an option requiring a floppy or if
Nero starts ok you are selecting an option requiring a floppy.

Of course you did RTFM and/or checked the Nero web site?
 
From: "Uncle Grumpy" <[email protected]>


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| My guess is that DR stands for DOS Replacement.
|
| Which it was.

Some of us "old timers" would say DR-DOS is Digital Research Disk Operating System.
Besides MS-DOS there was PC-DOS (IBM) and DR-DOS (Digital Research/Novell).
DR-DOS is now a free and open sourced Disk Operating System.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Uncle Grumpy" <[email protected]>


|
| My guess is that DR stands for DOS Replacement.
|
| Which it was.

Some of us "old timers" would say DR-DOS is Digital Research Disk Operating System.
Besides MS-DOS there was PC-DOS (IBM) and DR-DOS (Digital Research/Novell).
DR-DOS is now a free and open sourced Disk Operating System.
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I'm an "old timer" myself... with Alzheimer's.

will be 64 soon.
 
Uncle Grumpy said:
I'm an "old timer" myself... with Alzheimer's.

will be 64 soon.
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Perhaps your youth is an explanation for you not know that DR-DOS meant
Digital Research Dos.
I, of course, realize what DR-DOS means because I am now 77.
Jim
 
Jim said:
Perhaps your youth is an explanation for you not know that DR-DOS meant
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Yeah, that's it. My yute is the problem ;->

Here I thought because I was present at the rollout of DOS 5.0 with
Bill live via satellite that I was an old guy.
 
From: "Uncle Grumpy" <[email protected]>


|
| Yeah, that's it. My yute is the problem ;->
|
| Here I thought because I was present at the rollout of DOS 5.0 with
| Bill live via satellite that I was an old guy.

Ooooops....

I'm 45 and I remember and used CP/M and started with MS DOS v1.0 and Windows v1.0.
 
David H. Lipman said:
I'm 45 and I remember and used CP/M and started with MS DOS v1.0 and
Windows v1.0.
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Well, Windows 1.01 was the first release and I got it from a vendor for
free in 1985 or 1986. Because "Windows is a toy for developers only" in
his opinion. IIRC, Windows 1.0 was a demo version only.
 
From: "Detlev Dreyer" <[email protected]>

|
| Well, Windows 1.01 was the first release and I got it from a vendor for
| free in 1985 or 1986. Because "Windows is a toy for developers only" in
| his opinion. IIRC, Windows 1.0 was a demo version only.
|

Win1.0 or v1.01 -- doesn't matter.
It needed a serial mouse, 10MB HD, EMS board and CGA/Hercules Graphic card. I used a
Hercules card.

How many remember the EMS specification or know the difference between EMS and XMS RAM ?
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Uncle Grumpy" <[email protected]>


|
| Yeah, that's it. My yute is the problem ;->
|
| Here I thought because I was present at the rollout of DOS 5.0 with
| Bill live via satellite that I was an old guy.

Ooooops....

I'm 45 and I remember and used CP/M and started with MS DOS v1.0 and
Windows v1.0.
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The very first computer that I ever used was an IBM709. Its excuse for an
operating system was the IBJOB system.
OS/360 was the first IBM operating system, and I certainly used that sucker
a lot.

Jim
 
From: "Detlev Dreyer" <[email protected]>

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| Well, here are some screenshots:
| http://toastytech.com/guis/win101.html
||
| Not too many, I guess. Some guys, however, still know the difference.
| http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
|

Yes,. That thread mentions emulating Expanded Mememory in Extended Memory space. Useful on
286/186 chip based platforms. Thanx to Quaterdeck we had the XMS specification and when
Windows adopted XMS RAM, EMS was no longer neeeded.

Back then... Wasn't it phun putting in 9 chips in at a time per row/column ? :-)
 
David H. Lipman said:
Yes,. That thread mentions emulating Expanded Mememory in Extended
Memory space. Useful on 286/186 chip based platforms. Thanx to
Quaterdeck we had the XMS specification and when Windows adopted XMS
RAM, EMS was no longer neeeded.
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Well, not really. I remember some DOS games (Commander Keen or so) long
ago asking for EMS. When my son was young, I had to provide EMS on a
Win3.11 system (i486) and on a Win95 machine (Pentium I) as well.
Back then... Wasn't it phun putting in 9 chips in at a time per
row/column ? :-)
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Sure, if you're talking about RAM. I still have a drawerful of these
old modules and they were pretty expensive at that time.
 
From: "Detlev Dreyer" <[email protected]>

| "David H. Lipman" wrote:
|
|
| Well, Windows 1.01 was the first release and I got it from a vendor for
| free in 1985 or 1986. Because "Windows is a toy for developers only" in
| his opinion. IIRC, Windows 1.0 was a demo version only.
|

Win1.0 or v1.01 -- doesn't matter.
It needed a serial mouse, 10MB HD, EMS board and CGA/Hercules Graphic
card. I used a
Hercules card.

How many remember the EMS specification or know the difference between EMS
and XMS RAM ?
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Oh yes, various versions of QEMM. That and EMS gave extended life to an
8088 PC.
 
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