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win2k to dos
Name: sith Date: February 4, 2001 at 10:53:02 Pacific
Comment:
hi..i know this has been covered like a hundred times but i installed win 2k pro forever ago and i just got a couple of games that need 98/me os's..my comp is an p2 366 64mb 8gigs fat32 with a voodoo3 card..which runs sweet in nt.. and i can't get into dos even with a boot disk..it says disk i/o error..so i figure my a drive is cooked or something..but either way i have a cd-rw and was woundering if its possible to make a win2k dos boot dick on a cd and then boot it from there??? any info or other suggestions would be great..thanks in advance. sith.
Name: MneMonix Date: February 5, 2001 at 02:09:11 Pacific
Reply:
Sure you can create a Boot Disk and burn it to a CD (Called El-Torito Bootable CD) which has DOS on it. However if your Windows 2000 Hard Drive is formated with NTFS a DOS Bootdisk will not allow you to gain access to it. DOS does not recognize NTFS. If the Drive is Fat or Fat32 your Ok. But you have a million issues with this approach. In DOS the Voodo 3dFx card is plain jane VGA/SVGA, you will need CDRom Drivers for DOS, Sound Card Drivers for DOS, Gamepad Drivers for DOS. There weill be no 3dFx Support, no Open GL support, No DitectX support, No Direct SOund Support. Windows 2000 was not designed with game support as a priority. Some work, most don't. I'm just not sure what game you could possible want to play in DOS with no support for the hardware..
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