MS-DOS mode

[dieselmb]

I am in cmd.exe and try to use the AFUDOS BIOS utility.
It comes up:
ERROR: this program can only run in MS-DOS mode.

 

[John John]

The program or utility cannot be run from Windows 2000. You will have
to boot the computer with a DOS or Windows 9x boot disk to run it.
Cmd.exe looks like DOS but it isn't, and in any case Windows 2000 does
not allow direct access to hardware so whatever it is that the utility
does Windows 2000 would probably not allow it.

John

 

[Bob I]

Like John-John says, you need MS-DOS, not just a command prompt. Get one
here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[dieselmb]

Thanks guys.

Like John-John says, you need MS-DOS, not just a command prompt. Get one
here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Bob I]

You're welcome.

Thanks guys.

 

[rubyjack]

Please excuse my ignorance, as I am new to W2K and old to W98. But if I use
a W98/W95/MS-DOS boot disk, I won't be able to read my W2K NTFS drive,
correct?

Thanks,
Dan Hacker

 

[John John]

That's correct. Unless you get an NTFS reader for DOS...

John

 

[rubyjack]

Ah-ha! I knew there had to be a trick.

What is an NTFS reader for DOS, where can I get one, and how do I use it?


Thanks for the reply,
Dan Hacker

 

[Enkidu]

Google it. Sorry, but that's how the rest of us find stuff. There are
about 1.9 million pages when you search for DOS and NTFS but the first
few should do you.

http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=DOS+NTFS&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Cheers,

Cliff

 

[John John]

I would dare say that few of us here use DOS with NTFS readers to
service NT installations. You will have to follow Cliff's suggestion to
find a suitable reader. I haven't looked at those in quite a while but
in the NT4 days the free readers could only read, they couldn't
copy/move/edit files. Other than allowing one to see what was on the
disk they were next to useless! The full fledged NTFS for DOS was
pricey so many of us did without and used other methods to accomplish
repairs on broken NT installations. Maybe the free readers today are
more capable than they were then.

In any case, I suggest that you abandon your DOS diskettes altogether!
There are other, better tools to use instead of DOS. You can use the
Recovery Console, a Bart's PE disk or an Ultimate Boot CD for Windows,
to name a few.

John

 

[rubyjack]

Thanks for the link. I try to do as much research on my own as possible.
But there was so much to wade through, I was looking for some advice for a
W2000 newbie to be able to recover from crashes before it was too late

Dan Hacker

 

[Enkidu]

I understand. But by asking questions you are asking other people to do
the work for you. On the other hand if they have already done the work,
they may be willing to help you by passing on their wisdom. It's a balance.

In your case, my reply (which I hope wasn't too harsh), was prompted by
the fact that someone had pointed you in the right direction by
directing you to NTFS readers for DOS. The next step would probably have
been for you to do the Google search and *then* ask for more advice. But
it's only a suggestion.

Cheers,

Cliff