where'd my MSDOS prompt go to?

[Kozmo]

I recently upgraded from W98 to W XP home edition. Now I want to format a
floppy and I went to find the MSDOS prompt but it's not in my program file
list or startup list. I looked through the Windows folder and don't
recognize it there.

I searched for msdos*.* and found some leftover stuff in a W98 folder. No
exe file.

Any ideas where it is? Do I have it?

Or alternatively how else to format a floppy as a bootable system disk.

Kozmo

 

[Mike Hall]

Click on MY COMPUTER.. right click Drive A and select format..

 

[Kozmo]

thanks much.

kozmo

Click on MY COMPUTER.. right click Drive A and select format..

 

[Tom]

The MsDos prompt should be located in your Accessories folder.

 

[Guest]

Hi
Click on start, then on run type cmd and click on OK.
Command prompt file is now cmd .exe, located in the %windir%\system32 folder.

Nice feature of XP is when you go r-click a-drive in My Computer and select
format you can create a DOS bootable disk.

Proudly South African.

 

[André Gulliksen]

I recently upgraded from W98 to W XP home edition. Now I want to format a
floppy and I went to find the MSDOS prompt but it's not in my program file
list or startup list. I looked through the Windows folder and don't
recognize it there.

I searched for msdos*.* and found some leftover stuff in a W98 folder. No
exe file.

Any ideas where it is? Do I have it?

If you want a command line interface you can try running the following
programs:

- cmd.exe, XPs native interpreter. There is also a shortcut to this in
Accessories in your Start-menu.

- command.com. This is supposedly more compatible with MS-DOS, but
perfomance is much slower than cmd.exe.

Please have in mind that XP, unlike Windows 98, is not really an MS-DOS
based operating system.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

thanks much.

kozmo

See it was so hard a mentally-retarded baboon could have found it. Try
first, *THEN* whine when you've tried all options.

We don't take kindly to those who whine first...