Getting A C:\ Prompt Outside Of XP

[Mike Jones]

I Recently Purchased A Dell With XP Home. I Have A
Machine That Has A PC Driven Controller & Dos Based
Software. I Have Loaded The Software, But Need To Get Out
Of Windows To A DOS Prompt. When I Go To The Command
Prompt, Through Windows, It Does Not Allow Me To Do What
I Need To Do. Please Help.

 

[Nicholas]

Windows XP is not based on DOS, therefore you can't out
of Windows XP and boot into DOS because it ain't there.

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Nicholas

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|
| I Recently Purchased A Dell With XP Home. I Have A
| Machine That Has A PC Driven Controller & Dos Based
| Software. I Have Loaded The Software, But Need To Get Out
| Of Windows To A DOS Prompt. When I Go To The Command
| Prompt, Through Windows, It Does Not Allow Me To Do What
| I Need To Do. Please Help.

 

[aaron]

might also try START>RUN> command, instead of cmd

aaron

 

[Guest]

But Isn't The System DOS Based? How Does The Machine
Know How To Look For Logical Drives Without DOS?

 

[sqr]

People DOS is dead so forget it remember Williams send off.

The Nt kernel based OS's like NT?2k/XP are all the same and it will not let
you get out of the main GUI.

If you must use DOS then boot with a 9x floppy with NTFStoDOS on it.