I needed to run a utility in DOS on my W2K PC...
Monday, April 28, 2003 at 9:48 pm
Posted by White Hawk
(1 messages posted)
I recently decided that regional limitations on my DVD player were an infringement
of my human rights, so I spent a long time looking for a deregionalisation solution.
Fortunately, far from requiring an EPROM burner or fine soldering iron skills, all
I needed to do was update the drive's firmware.
Alas, a snag: the utility I had to use to flash the firmware update was DOS-based,
and would not function properly under Windows at all. My OS being Windows 2000,
I found no obvious solution.
What I did was rather a rather roundabout solution, but it worked.
I have Partition Magic installed on my PC, and had created PM boot floppies. The
first of these floppies boots to DR DOS, the second runs the DOS Partition Magic
application.
Having booted to Partition Magic, I then exited the application and proceeded to
execute the necessary utility without any further problems.
I am not sure how this might help, I have no idea where you might find DR DOS, and
it certainly doesn't allow you to then boot to Windows 2000 without a reboot - but
I now use this convoluted solution whenever i need to run a DOS program that dislikes
Windows.
Hope the info. helps.
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