starting in dos

[pdc]

how do I leave xp and start up in dos prompt?

 

[Chris Lanier]

Hi, you dont. Windows XP doesnt include DOS.

 

[William Gower]

Get a Dos Boot Disk, put it in Drive A and restart the computer. Although
it probably won't do you any good especially depending on how you have
formatted your drives.

 

[none]

You have to either dual boot the computer or boot with a floppy boot disk.
You can not "boot" the XP os in DOS mode like you could with Win 9X. Win XP
is not built on DOS.

If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS instead of FAT 32, you will not be
able to access anything on the hard drive in DOS.

XP does have a compatibility mode and you can also get a DOS type prompt.
To get to the command line interpreter, click Start, Run and type CMD and
press enter.

 

[Ken Blake]

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how do I leave xp and start up in dos prompt?

Unlike Windows 9X, XP isn't built on DOS, doesn't include DOS,
and there's no way to do what you want.

The only way to boot to DOS is from a DOS diskette, and if your
drive is NTFS it will be invisible to such a boot unless you have
special software such as NTFSDOS.

 

[Guest]

Thanks to all that have replied. You guys are life savers
for a guy like me

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

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 or included MS-DOS. The closest they have is the
Command Prompt window.

WinXP, like its predecessors WinNT & Win2K, is a pure 32-bit GUI
OS, and does not include or "ride upon" any version of DOS, as did
Win3.x & Win9x/Me. WinXP does include a command-line emulator for
those times when GUI applets are unnecessary/redundant, but it cannot
be started in "DOS mode."


Bruce Chambers

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