windows xp startup disk
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Name: devaughnn1
Date: April 24, 2004 at 13:45:59 Pacific
Subject: windows xp startup diskOS: Win98/win xp |
Comment: By making a Windows xp startup disk and inserting it into drive A and restarting my computer will that take me to real dos mode or VIRTUAL DOS? how do I get to real dos mod?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Valerie (by Garibaldi)
Date: April 24, 2004 at 14:28:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)There is no Dos in XP, just an emulator. To get into real Dos you could boot into W.98 then go to the underlying Dos which I think is ver 7.1. But if you are trying to access your XP partition using Dos you might have a problem if you are running NTFS as real Dos does not recognise NTFS. Good luck V...
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Response Number 2
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Name: StuartS
Date: April 24, 2004 at 14:36:40 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)There is no DOS in XP, only a DOS emulation. The startup disk created from within XP will take you to real DOS, but that's all. It is the version of DOS that comes with Windows ME and is designed for booting to DOS in order to flash the BIOS. You cannot install Windows from this disk nor can you run Windows XP from it. To create a Windows XP Startup disk, go to the following site: http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/4/13-4-8.shtml or http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8fe6868-6e4f-471c-b455-bd5afee126d8&displaylang=en This should only be needed if you don't have the ability to boot from the CD as the Windows XP CD has everything needed to install Windows XP. Stuart
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