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Starting In Dos?
Name: treble41 Date: October 2, 2004 at 20:06:02 Pacific OS: Win 2000 CPU/Ram: p3-256 mb ram
Comment:
I have to reinstall my cd drive with a floppy but one of the steps is to start the computer in MS DOS, how do I do that eh?
Name: rogerashley Date: October 2, 2004 at 23:21:23 Pacific
Reply:
There is no MSDOS in W2K and never will be except in Emulation Mode. W2K will auto detect Optical drives if they are recognised in the BIOS. No Drivers required.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 3, 2004 at 00:11:49 Pacific
Reply:
Set your BIOS to boot floppy first.
Put a boot floppy in the drive.
Season to taste.
Enjoy.
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Response Number 3
Name: Steve Dunn Date: October 4, 2004 at 13:31:15 Pacific
Reply:
As rogerashley says - 2k will recognise CD. Certainly no need for dos - and if you do boot from a floppy into dos, it won't make the slightest difference to 2k (ie, nothing you do there will be picked up when you boot 2k).
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Response Number 4
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 4, 2004 at 19:40:58 Pacific
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