ntldr dual boot -> MSDOS console and Windows 2000

[Mark]

Purpose: Free all RAM while still running DOS.

Esentially, all i wanna really do is reincorperate the
restart in DOS function that was so unnessesarilly removed
from recent versions of Windows and use the NT loader
program to load DOS only (the MSDOS prompt).

How can this be done?

I've searched the internet for clues and have fiddle around
with my boot.ini and have not come up with the desired
result. I would like to use the already exsisting MSDOS do
the boot. I tried it by modifying boot.ini to get NTLDR to
load DOS, but it only assumes any new entry OS is NT so it
looks for the files needed for NT and fails. Help! This
will fix so many DOS related problems. All I want is DOS!
Thanks.

 

[Ghostrider]

Purpose: Free all RAM while still running DOS.

Esentially, all i wanna really do is reincorperate the
restart in DOS function that was so unnessesarilly removed
from recent versions of Windows and use the NT loader
program to load DOS only (the MSDOS prompt).

How can this be done?

I've searched the internet for clues and have fiddle around
with my boot.ini and have not come up with the desired
result. I would like to use the already exsisting MSDOS do
the boot. I tried it by modifying boot.ini to get NTLDR to
load DOS, but it only assumes any new entry OS is NT so it
looks for the files needed for NT and fails. Help! This
will fix so many DOS related problems. All I want is DOS!
Thanks.

If Windows 2000 does not support FAT16, then dual-booting
with MS-DOS will not succeed. IIRC, this is the case but
does anybody else know differently?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Purpose: Free all RAM while still running DOS.

Esentially, all i wanna really do is reincorperate the
restart in DOS function that was so unnessesarilly removed
from recent versions of Windows and use the NT loader
program to load DOS only (the MSDOS prompt).

How can this be done?

I've searched the internet for clues and have fiddle around
with my boot.ini and have not come up with the desired
result. I would like to use the already exsisting MSDOS do
the boot. I tried it by modifying boot.ini to get NTLDR to
load DOS, but it only assumes any new entry OS is NT so it
looks for the files needed for NT and fails. Help! This
will fix so many DOS related problems. All I want is DOS!
Thanks.

Do this:

1. Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com.
2. Type this command:
sys c:
This will install the DOS7 boot files.
3. Get a copy of bootpart.exe from
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm
4. Type this command:
bootpart win95 c:\win98.sys "DOS 7"
This will create a Win97 boot sector file. It will also include a
DOS menu item in c:\boot.ini.
5. Type this command:
bootpart winnt boot:c:
This will restore the Win2000 boot process (which you destroyed
in step 2. above).

The above will only work if your primary partition is FAT or FAT32.
It will fail for NTFS partitions. Win2000 will, of course, read both
FAT and FAT32 partitions.

 

[Gary Smith]

If Windows 2000 does not support FAT16, then dual-booting
with MS-DOS will not succeed. IIRC, this is the case but
does anybody else know differently?

Windows 2000 (and NT and XP) all support FAT16. My system is a dual boot
with DOS 6.22 and Win 2K. I previously use Win NT in the same
configuration.