trouble w/ boot to DOS

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Subject: trouble w/ boot to DOS: invalid drive specification
From: "Chuckles" <[email protected]>
Sent: 12/1/2004 11:19:26 AM

I cannot seem to do anything after booting to DOS. This is
an IBM thinkpad T30 running Windows XP. I followed
instructions to create the necessary boot to DOS disk or MS
DOS startup disk. It
boots me properly to dos with access only to the A drive,
A:\> but from there I cannot seem to do anything.

I cannot access the c:\ drive at all.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,



..

 

[Chris Catt]

Hi, if your c: drive is using NTFS then you'll not be able to see it from a
dos disc....
Chris C

 

[Shenan Stanley]

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Subject: trouble w/ boot to DOS: invalid drive specification
From: "Chuckles" <[email protected]>
Sent: 12/1/2004 11:19:26 AM

I cannot seem to do anything after booting to DOS. This is
an IBM thinkpad T30 running Windows XP. I followed
instructions to create the necessary boot to DOS disk or MS
DOS startup disk. It
boots me properly to dos with access only to the A drive,
A:\> but from there I cannot seem to do anything.

I cannot access the c:\ drive at all.

Can anyone help?

....

If your C drive is formated NTFS, you cannot use a plain DOS diskette to
access the files on it. You need something to read NTFS.

 

[G. Samuel Hays]

Windows XP is probably sitting on a NTFS formatted drive (as apposed to
Fat32) - which a DOS disk cannot read. What are you trying to do?

Best Regards,
G. Samuel Hays

 

[Plato]

I cannot seem to do anything after booting to DOS. This is

Because dos cant see a drive partitioned in NTFS. Perfectly normal.

 

[Guest]

I am trying to delete index.dat, which I was told should be
done from a reboot to DOS: Reboot to DOS, change to your
Windows Directory and type -deltree tempor~1

 

[Bob I]

We aren't using Windows ME here! You probably shouldn't mess around with
this much more.

 

[CZ]

Hi, if your c: drive is using NTFS then you'll not be able to see it fromdos disc....

Chris:

Yes you can:
Get NTFS Reader for DOS from http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.htm
"For NT/2K/XP. This is an absolutely essential recovery tool if you use NTFS
partitions. Add this 147 KB executable file to your Win9x-based boot floppy
and it will let you read any NTFS partition and copy off files to any FAT
partition"

 

[Chris Catt]

Or boot from the XP CD......
Chris C

dos disc....

Chris:

Yes you can:
Get NTFS Reader for DOS from http://aumha.org/freeware/freeware.htm
"For NT/2K/XP. This is an absolutely essential recovery tool if you use
NTFS partitions. Add this 147 KB executable file to your Win9x-based boot
floppy and it will let you read any NTFS partition and copy off files to
any FAT partition"

 

[G. Samuel Hays]

Or you can boot up w/ your XP CD and open a "recovery console" (which is
like a DOS prompt) and delete whatever you want that way.. just be careful


Best Regards,
G. Samuel Hays

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am trying to delete index.dat, which I was told should be
done from a reboot to DOS: Reboot to DOS, change to your
Windows Directory and type -deltree tempor~1

Reboot, hitting F8 as the initial screen goes to black (well before the
Windows Flag). Choose the option:
Safe Mode - Command Prompt

which is a basic XP using the cmd.exe command interpreter. It is not
DO, though it looks like it, and will do things like you are after

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am trying to delete index.dat, which I was told should be
done from a reboot to DOS: Reboot to DOS, change to your
Windows Directory and type -deltree tempor~1

BTW - that command will not be right, as temporary internet files does
not live in there in XP. Do a
CD \Documents and Settings\youraccount\Local Settings\Temporary
Internet Files
(all one line - it will probably wrap here) and then
DEL /S *.*