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Accessing MSDOS
Name: Shawooshy Date: March 1, 2005 at 12:55:13 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: Dont Know
Comment:
How do I access MSDOS before i make it to the Windows XP login stage
There is no dos in xp. You can boot from an win 98 boot disk.
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Response Number 2
Name: Shawooshy Date: March 1, 2005 at 12:59:52 Pacific
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grr i thought that to be the case .... okay thanx
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Response Number 3
Name: MikeG Date: March 1, 2005 at 14:01:36 Pacific
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There is no DOS in XP. However, if all you need is a DOS-style command prompt, all you have to do is go to Start->Run and type "cmd" without the quotes.
-MikeG
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Response Number 4
Name: demonking Date: March 1, 2005 at 14:50:01 Pacific
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Check out bootdisk.com , You may find what you are looking for their. Hope this helps
The world is full of willing people, some are willing to work, others are willing to let them; just a thought!
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Response Number 5
Name: jboy Date: March 1, 2005 at 16:41:38 Pacific
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DOS has no native support for NTFS partitions, if that's applicable. There's a freeware reader available which allows some file access
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dumb question probably
