re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS'
Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 8:17 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MaddMaxx
(1988 messages posted)
The question wasn't about a "need" for dos. It was how to get there. As to the rest,
your Win2k partition can be read by dos and all commands will be effective if your
partition is FAT32. And yes, Win2k will run quite well.
On Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 4:58 am, Karl Jackson wrote:
>Using a 98 boot disk will work as far as booting into DOS goes...but
>anything in 2000 will be utterly inaccessible if the drive/partition is formatted
>in NTFS. DOS can't read it - it won't even display a directory. I have a dual-boot
>system (98 and 2000), and Windows Explorer can't see 2000's partition at all. In
>98 my drives are:
>C: - Win 98
>D: - Second hard drive (backups)
>E: - CD-ROM
>F: - DVD-ROM/CD-RW
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>But in 2000, it goes:
>C: - Win 98
>D: - Second hard drive (backups)
>E: - Win 2000, NTFS format
>F: - CD-ROM
>G: - DVD-ROM/CD-RW
>See what I mean?
>If you're running 2000 you don't really need DOS at all - the Command Prompt (which
>isn't DOS, just an emulation of it) should be enough. In fact, when you're installing
>2000 you don't need to install DOS or any other OS first - provided your BIOS allows
>booting from a CD-ROM, all you need is the 2000 installation disk. You can create
>an Emergency Repair Disk, but it isn't a boot disk in the 98 sense.
>It would help if you described exactly what you're trying to do and why you might
>need DOS to do it...
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