MS DOS Manual Boot Disc load old version of DOS

[Guest]

When I boot my computer from the MS DOS boot disc(that
was made in windows xp which supports DOS ver 5.1) it
displays the heading "window millenium edition" the
version of does that is displayed when the ver command is
entered is DOS ver 4.9. Therefore none of the commands
will work properly.(For instance, when I attempt to
manually format and partition the C: drive with the
command: FORMAT C:, it niether recognizes the command or
communicates with the DOS file which is on the hard
drive. What is the reason for this, and is there a way
to remedy this situation. Also, is there an alternative
route to formatting hard disc C:.

 

[Jetro]

There was neither MS-DOS 4.9 nor 5.1. Windows XP can create bootable MS-DOS
7.0 diskette which is pure MS-DOS version from Windows ME.
No-one MS-DOS version cannot recognise NTFS and format such volumes. MS-DOS
prior v.6.22 cannot recognise FAT32 either.
If the computer support a boot from CD drive, you can start XP setup,
repartition the disk and format C:.

 

[Guest]

For your edification, Windows XP and the programmes in Windows Directory or
Root directory of the hard disk are not designed to be run in DOS 4.9.

In order to 'Format' when booting off a floppy disk, one must have a copy of
FORMAT.EXE on the floppy disk which can be run from the DOS version of the
bootable floppy disk.

If you have a friend with Me or 98 make a bootable floppy drive on their
system and make sure that you copy the version of format.exe from their
system to the floppy drive if it isn't part of the file set.

If your objective is to format your drive and reinstall Windows XP, then
boot off the Windows XP install CD and do a clean install. Part of the
process will request if you wish to format the existing drive. You can
choose to Format at this time, prior to the installation taking place.