How do you boot straight to DOS without entering XP?

[Guest]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP? I'm having
trouble booting up XP because of a weird driver file which brings up the
dreaded Blue Screen of Death. If I go into DOS, I might be able to change the
file name to render it so it won't be in conflict with XP's startup.

Thanks

 

[Kerry Brown]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP? I'm having
trouble booting up XP because of a weird driver file which brings up
the dreaded Blue Screen of Death. If I go into DOS, I might be able
to change the file name to render it so it won't be in conflict with
XP's startup.

Thanks

There is no DOS in Windows XP. You can boot to the recovery console from the
Windows XP CD and get a command line interface that is somewhat similar to
DOS. Look for Recovery Console in Start ==> Help and Support for details.

Kerry

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP?

No. Unlike Windows 9X, Windows XP isn't built on top of DOS, and you can't
go into it at all--not straight into it without starting XP or at any other
time.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

No, because there is no underlying DOS layer. There is the Recovery Console,
but this is merely a command line interface and not truely DOS. What does
the Blue Screen error say?

HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP [Q307654]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307654

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP?

No. There is no way to reboot a WinXP PC into Real Mode DOS unless
you've set up a dual-boot system. The WinNT family of 32-bit (and now
64-bit) graphical desktop 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."


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[Don Wiss]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP? I'm having
trouble booting up XP because of a weird driver file which brings up the
dreaded Blue Screen of Death. If I go into DOS, I might be able to change the
file name to render it so it won't be in conflict with XP's startup.

Try booting into Safe Mode. Press F8 when booting. Then again after the
options come up.

Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).

 

[Squire]

Boot into safe mode, to bypass the Windows startup files

On the Start - Run line, type CMD.EXE and hit enter,
type CD\ and hit enter to put you in the root directory.
You can go to any partition or directory and look for your file.
Almost all of the original DOS commands can be used.

Jerry

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A good friend will come and bail you out of jail...
but a true friend will be sitting beside you saying,
"Damn... that was fun!"

<Snip>

 

[Plato]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP? I'm having

Yes. Boot with a dos bootdisk on a floppy or cd. If your XP drive is in
FAT32 then you'd be able to see and
delete/rename the files you want. Or, if your drive is in NTFS, then one
can still use a bootdisk with an NTFS driver to read/write to the NTFS
drive.

http://www.datapol.de/dpe/freeware/

 

[Steve N.]

Is there a way to go straight into DOS without starting XP? I'm having
trouble booting up XP because of a weird driver file which brings up the
dreaded Blue Screen of Death. If I go into DOS, I might be able to change the
file name to render it so it won't be in conflict with XP's startup.

Thanks

What driver is causing the problem?

Steve N.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Try booting into Safe Mode. Press F8 when booting. Then again after the
options come up.

That's not MS-DOS, that's the Recovery Console, which is an entirely
different thing.


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