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Reinstalling Dos

Original Message
Name: mdccdm2000
Date: August 26, 2006 at 23:26:40 Pacific
Subject: Reinstalling Dos
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 700 mhz/ 1.5 Ram
Model/Manufacturer: Gateway 3955
Comment:
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.

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Response Number 1
Name: dosser
Date: August 26, 2006 at 23:38:53 Pacific
Subject: Reinstalling Dos
Reply: (edit)
Windows XP has no MS-DOS it is NT COMMAND PROMPT, best to ask in the XP Forum !

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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: August 27, 2006 at 00:15:48 Pacific
Subject: Reinstalling Dos
Reply: (edit)
"will this fix the unreadable output i think caused by a Virus"

Yeah, XP forum.

And say what the actual problem is.


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Response Number 3
Name: Bicephale
Date: August 27, 2006 at 01:00:50 Pacific
Subject: Reinstalling Dos
Reply: (edit)
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.
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Salutations,

Michel Samson
a/s Bicéphale


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