msdos & windows xp

[Bill Case]

Would like to know the following:

When (if) I have booted using ms-dos (6.22) and I am at the dos prompt what is the command to boot Windows XP?

With Windows 95 and /or Windows 98 it was c:\windows\win(.exe)

Should I still be able to do that with WindowsXP? If the command has changed for XP, what is it?

Bill

 

[philo]

Would like to know the following:

When (if) I have booted using ms-dos (6.22) and I am at the dos prompt what
is the command to boot Windows XP?

With Windows 95 and /or Windows 98 it was c:\windows\win(.exe)

Should I still be able to do that with WindowsXP? If the command has changed
for XP, what is it?

Bill


XP cannot be booted from dos...
and if you use a boot disk...it will not even see an NTFS partition

if you want to create a boot floppy

all you do is format a floppy on your XP machine
(if you have one that was formatted on a win9x machine, you will need to
re-format it)

now just copy

boot.ini
ntdetect.com
ntldr

to the floppy
if any of the above files are deleted or corrupted on your harddrive...
you can use the floppy to boot right up to XP in the gui mode

 

[Ken Blake]

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Would like to know the following:

When (if) I have booted using ms-dos (6.22) and I am at the dos
prompt what is the command to boot Windows XP?

There is none.

With Windows 95 and /or Windows 98 it was c:\windows\win(.exe)

Should I still be able to do that with WindowsXP?

No. This is not possible. Unlike Windows 95/98, Windows XP is not
based on MS-DOS.

 

[Tim Slattery]

When (if) I have booted using ms-dos (6.22) and I am at the dos prompt what is the command to boot Windows XP?

With Windows 95 and /or Windows 98 it was c:\windows\win(.exe)

Should I still be able to do that with WindowsXP? If the command has changed for XP, what is it?

No, you should not be able to do that with XP. The Win9x systems ran
on top of DOS (although they replaced most of DOS's functions once
loaded). They always started from a DOS session, though you usually
weren't aware of it. But XP is different, DOS doesn't exist here. The
only way to get DOS is to use a dual-boot setup or boot from a DOS
floppy. Once you do that, you cannot get into WinXP.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Would like to know the following:

When (if) I have booted using ms-dos (6.22) and I am at the dos
prompt what is the command to boot Windows XP?

With Windows 95 and /or Windows 98 it was c:\windows\win(.exe)

Should I still be able to do that with WindowsXP? If the command has
changed for XP, what is it?

Bill

Not to put too fine a point on it, you can't.

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
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation,
has never used, included, or "ridden upon" MS-DOS. The closest they
have is the Command Prompt window.

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[Incognitus]

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There is none.

When I'm at a Dos prompt and ready to boot back to XP, I use ctrl+alt+del.

 

[Bill Case]

Thanks to Ken Blake, Tim Slattery and Bruce Chambers

Just wondering.

I blew my whole system a couple of weeks ago. My fault. I was playing around with partitions at 3:00 o'clock in the morning. I booted with an old dos disk to confirm that things were as bad as they seemed. They were. I don't want to set up a dual boot with dos or anything.

Just wondering.

Bill

Would like to know the following:

When (if) I have booted using ms-dos (6.22) and I am at the dos prompt what is the command to boot Windows XP?

With Windows 95 and /or Windows 98 it was c:\windows\win(.exe)

Should I still be able to do that with WindowsXP? If the command has changed for XP, what is it?

Bill

 

[Ken Blake]

When I'm at a Dos prompt and ready to boot back to XP, I use
ctrl+alt+del.

Of course you can do that. You can also power off and power back
on. But neither is a DOS command that will boot Windows XP. As I
said, that's not possible.

 

[Ken Blake]

Thanks to Ken Blake, Tim Slattery and Bruce Chambers

You're welcome. Glad to help.

Just wondering.

I blew my whole system a couple of weeks ago. My fault. I was
playing around
with partitions at 3:00 o'clock in the morning. I booted with
an old dos disk to
confirm that things were as bad as they seemed. They were.

Just a caveat here, in case you're not aware of it. Things may
not be as bad as you think. If you booted from a DOS disk and
couldn't see your hard drive, that can be *normal* even if
nothing were wrong. If you hard drive is NTFS, it would be
invisible to your DOS boot.

If course, if the drive is FAT32, ignore the above.

 

[Incognitus]

Of course you can do that. You can also power off and power back on. But
neither is a DOS command that will boot Windows XP. As I said, that's not
possible.

Of course it isn't, if it were, I wouldn't use ctrl+alt+del. =)

 

[Bill Case]

To Ken Blake;

No it was much worse than that.

Windows was in a Fat32 partition and I had Linux in an ext3 partition. I
had done some stupid stuff that filled my Linux partition and I was trying
to make more space, late at night, tired and fustrated and instead of going
to bed I inadvertately deleted the Ext3 partition and lost my MBR and my
FAT. I know better.

That was two weeks ago. Since then I have added an extra hard drive for my
Linux; reformated, repartitioned and reinstalled everything. So any fix now
is too late.

Bill

P.S. If there are spelling mistakes I apologise. See my post on
microsoft.public.word.spelling.grammer. I lost my spell checker on the
reinstall.




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