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How do you boot up in Dos mode?
Name: Mark D Date: December 2, 2001 at 11:21:02 Pacific
Comment:
I'm trying to reformat my harddrive but I can't figure out how to boot up in dos mode. I tried fromatting from the dos window in XP but it says the "handle" on my h/d is being used. Then I booted up in safe mode with the dos promt, but it says the same thing and won't let me format. How do you boot up in a pure dos mode? Or is there another to reformat without having to go to dos? TIA!
Name: jimi_l Date: December 2, 2001 at 11:59:14 Pacific
Reply:
1)take a blank floppy disk and put it in the drive 2)right click on the drive and select format 3)check option to "create DOS startup disk" 4)click ok 5)reboot with floppy still in drive and your there!! Jimi_l
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Response Number 2
Name: tim Date: December 2, 2001 at 15:28:09 Pacific
Reply:
you can also use a 9x bootdisk from bootdisk.com
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Response Number 3
Name: paolo coen Date: January 14, 2002 at 19:50:43 Pacific
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I made a start up disk in Windows XP. Then I try to reboot but my pc reboots, it doesn't check first the floppy. Can someone tell me how to make the pc look first at the floppy a: when it reboots in order to reboot in MS-DOS mode? Thank you in advance for your help
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Response Number 4
Name: anynomous Date: February 20, 2002 at 20:53:58 Pacific
Reply:
Try going into the bios and setting the floppy to boot first
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Response Number 5
Name: Gabriel Date: April 2, 2002 at 03:29:53 Pacific
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I have the same problem, I cant reboot in DOS mode, I tried making a DOS bootdisk as Jimi_1 said, but it didnt work. XP Pro said "Please remove disks and press any button" when I rebooted, my BIOS settings are ok when it comes to boot sequence. Using a WIN 98 bootflop didnt work either. Can anyone help me?
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Response Number 6
Name: Gabriel Date: April 8, 2002 at 02:30:33 Pacific
Reply:
I was using a faulty win98 disk, I now made a new one with a friends computer and now it does work.
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