Hello I was having Problems Running Certain Commmand's in Dos under windows Xp. How can I re-install M-S Dos files onto my computer without Re-installing The entire OS, In This case windowsXP OS. and will this fix the unreadable output i think caused by a Virus. Thanks In advance. Moses Chirinos. CBM Media.com

Windows XP has no MS-DOS it is NT COMMAND PROMPT, best to ask in the XP Forum !

"will this fix the unreadable output i think caused by a Virus" Yeah, XP forum. And say what the actual problem is. ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Hi Moises, You most likely need to add a 2nd Hard-Disk if you must boot from DOS as it can't load from any other drive/partition than C:, provided you can swap the units with help from the CMOS SetUp utility; this way, DOS and XP will both become available but not simultaneously. In a fresh setup, i'd install DOS on drive C: then XP on another partition - i think Boot.INI can be hand-edited to add DOS to the boot menu (which is more practical)... There's a third option though: VMWare and Virtual Machines alike. The problem with a Windows XP/2K/NT console box is about peripheral I/O deprivation, an issue you can fix thru VMWare, etc., because DOS is given access to some Video card, Serial/Parallel Ports, NetWork Interface Card, Sound Card and MoDem/WinMoDem: it leaves control to Windows but creates fake devices which DOS can use as in the good old days and with the benefit of having the Windows resources handy. Being a Windows application, i believe it might be judged improper to discuss VMWare or else here but once you're set i don't see a reason why the setup of synthetic devices should be declared prohibited as it looks and feels quite like "the real thing". It's easy enough to install such an emulator and a DOS install is done using the same diskettes you'd feed to a virgin PC. One word of caution: VMWare is safer if DOS can have its own partition instead of the image-file which is useless once corrupted. __________________________________________________ Salutations, Michel Samson a/s Bicéphale