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re: Comment about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 8:37 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11774 messages posted)
Jeff
Well you just need to use the right tools to do what you want to do.
If you want to flash the BIOS use a win98se boot disk or just about any boot disk
will do it.
The boot disk will over ride Anything that's on the HD.
Then put in your BIOS flash disk in and run it.
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You can also do it from a boot cd if you want, some of the new machine don't come
with a floppy disk anymore.
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Items that are TSR need to have a OS to load them up into ram.
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Use msconfig or Startup CPL to stop any program from loading up at boot ( into memory/ram)
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"Not EVERYONE has windows-based BIOS " = No windows base BIOS that I know about .
BIOS is chip on the MB that can be changed at will from the BIOS setup.
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DOS is dead in a way because most of the programs need RAM to run and DOS just can't
give the machine the full ram to run the programs .
You can run many of the old DOS base programs if you have DOS installed on your machine
in it's own partition.
"your RAM with Microsoft's utility? guess what, it doesn't run in *Windows* ...."
= you should not test ram in windows.
Download this cd ,it will test your ram.
and it's free.
Ultimate Boot CD with MANY tools on it.
From:
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Or
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4019
Hope this helps a bit.
Have a good one
On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 8:20 am, Jeff Kane wrote:
>I have a comment about How
>do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?:
>Author said "DOS is dead, Windows did right, get over it" or words to that effect.
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>The only problem with this is that DOS is still useful for many things that Windows
>isn't. Ever try deleting a file in memory that won't quit via Task Manager End
Process?
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>How about flashing the BIOS on a peripheral? Not EVERYONE has windows-based BIOS
>flash utilities, especially not for motherboards.
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>Right now I have Windows2000, and it seems I'm unable to flash any bios, because
>there is no way to get to a straight command prompt to do it.
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>So, until Windows becomes a fully-featured GUI, we still need DOS. P.S. - ever
test
>your RAM with Microsoft's utility? guess what, it doesn't run in *Windows* ....
>
>Windows isn't complete enough to justify abandoning DOS yet. Get over it.
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