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I've learned that Windows XP does not have the following files
autoexec.ba
config.sy
io.sy
msdos.sy

Does it have comparible files maybe with different names?
 
It doesn't use autoexec.bat or config.sys but it does ue IO.SYS and, for
what i'm not sure, MSDOS.SYS
 
another poster to an earlier message said xp doesn't use io.sys and msdos.sys..

I'm getting really confused now. ;-)
 
Hi, Kelley.

Those files are all for MS-DOS. Early versions of Windows and all the
Win9x/ME versions were built on the MS-DOS platform. Windows 2000 and
later, including Windows XP, are built on the NT (New Technology) platform
and do not use those files.

WinXP does have the ability to format a floppy diskette, including the
ability to put an MS-DOS operating system (WinME version) on it, thereby
creating an MS-DOS boot floppy. So the files io.sys and msdos.sys are
included in WinXP for this purpose.

WinXP also includes the files config.nt and autoexec.nt, which are sometimes
used to configure the MS-DOS emulators (Command.com (16-bit) and Cmd.exe
(32-bit)) when required by some DOS-based or Win3.x/9x/ME-based application
that needs such special configuration. But not config.sys and autoexec.bat

RC
 
Hi, wojo.
It won't
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Mine does.

Which root directory did you have in mind? I did have C:\io.sys, but I
renamed it to io.syx and rebooted into WinXP just fine. My boot folder is
D:\WinNT; there never was a D:\io.sys. There are archived copies of io.sys
in various folders on Drive M: and other places in my computer, but they
have nothing to do with booting WinXP. Heck, there's even an L:\io.sys in
the volume where I have installed the PDC version of Windows Longhorn - but
that io.sys is only 2 bytes long. Each of my working io.sys files are
222,390 bytes long and are dated 5/11/98 (the original Win98) or 12/4/98
(the WinME version). The copy in C:\EBD is the WinME version; this is the
one WinXP uses when it creates an MS-DOS boot floppy.

But none of these io.sys files have anything to do with booting or running
WinXP.

RC
 
Your right and I apologize. I just tried it myself and it booted. I thought
I remembered trying this before and it didn't boot but I'm getting old. The
memory's the 2nd thing to go and I'll be damned if I can remember what the
1st thing is. :)
 
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