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Booting directly into DOS
Name: Fred Date: September 29, 2003 at 21:12:07 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: Intel P IV
Comment:
How do I boot directly into DOS without going through Windows (XP) MS-DOS?
Name: Sabertooth Date: September 29, 2003 at 21:16:50 Pacific
Reply:
You can use a boot/startup disk,by the way what filesystem are you using FAT32 or NTFS?
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Response Number 2
Name: Hooner Date: September 30, 2003 at 01:04:31 Pacific
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Depends on what you mean by DOS, if you mean a command prompt, then yes, a boot disk from www.bootdisk.com will do the trick, but if you're hoping to find true DOS on an Xp machine you're out of luck, it doesn't exist..............
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Response Number 3
Name: x86 Date: September 30, 2003 at 03:14:05 Pacific
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Yet again there is no M$-DOS in XP, it should be stated it is an emulation of M$-DOS version 8 (ME).
Name: JonPhoenix Date: October 1, 2003 at 16:47:18 Pacific
Reply:
Press F8 before windows loads and choose the boot to command prompt option if you are only looking for the command prompt. If you are looking for legitimate DOS, you need a dos boot disk or start up disk.
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