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Eric-Allen
This may be a stupid request, but how can I get WinXP to boot to DOS, and
load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
This may be a stupid request, but how can I get WinXP to boot to
DOS, and load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
This may be a stupid request, but how can I get WinXP to boot to DOS, and
load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
Eric-Allen said:This may be a stupid request, but how can I get WinXP to boot to DOS,
and load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
Ken said:You can't.
Eric-Allen said:This may be a stupid request, but how can I get WinXP to boot to DOS, and
load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
Eric-Allen said:This may be a stupid request, but how can I get WinXP to boot to DOS, and
load windows from command.com by typing Win ?????
Only for Win98, Win95, and (as I recall) Win 3.1.
Well, if you want to name exceptions, there's also
Windows 1.0
Windows 2.0
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.11
Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Windows Me (I think, I'm not sure about Windows Me)
Patrick Keenan said:You can't do this with XP. You could potentially get the *machine* to
DOS, by booting with a DOS disk.
But if your hard disk is over 40 gig, it's almost certainly formatted
NTFS, and the DOS disk won't know what to do with it.
The launcher for XP is not titled "win.com".
Even if your disk was formatted as FAT and you booted to DOS and found the
command, XP will not launch from it, for reasons like command.com uses
incompatible and insufficient memory management.
So the only way you could do it is to format the disk as FAT32, or add
another disk, do an install of Win9x or ME, and set up a dual-boot. You
will need to install Win9x first, meaning you'd have to erase your current
XP install.
Not Me...
In Wndows ME it was just hidden from the user and you have a few patches
available in the www that will bring out the DOS in Windows ME
I have a partition of Me, so I'm still familiar with how it works.
While "patches" or utilities can be used in a number of ways that alter
an OS, in its "normal" state, Me doesn't allow real mode DOS.
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