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what exactly is msdos.sys?
Name: hugabug Date: October 18, 2004 at 21:03:35 Pacific OS: na CPU/Ram: na
Name: hugabug Date: October 18, 2004 at 21:05:22 Pacific
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I forgot another q.... what does msdos.sys have to do with windows at bootup?
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 19, 2004 at 02:26:25 Pacific
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Actually the OS matters.
The short answer is that when DOS boots, it loads io.sys msdos.sys and command.com, which are the OS.
Windows 3.x - 9x won't run without it.
NT is a different beast.
9x and, let's say, w2k, can look very much alike.
They're not.
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: StuartS Date: October 19, 2004 at 18:17:57 Pacific
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Depends which version of Windows you are talking about. MS-DOS.SYS along with IO.sys is/was one of the basic files for MS-DOS. Windows 3.1 was just a GUI running on top of DOS.
Windows 9X still runs on top of DOS and still uses MS-DOS.sys but now it is just a text file with information to tell the boot loader how to load Windows.
Windows NT/2000/XP don't use and don't need MS-DOS.sys at all as they do not run on top of DOS. They just have a DOS emulator built in.
Windows XP still puts IO.SYS and MS-DOS.sys in the root folder but they are empty files. What they are there for I have no idea because deleting them doesn't do any harm.
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