I've googled this and have not found one direct answer yet....do any of ye guyz know how to boot into DOS safely from WindowsMe? More importantly how do I get out?

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EMERGENCY BOOT DISK FREEWARE

There is no "real" DOS with Windows ME. You have to make a bootdiskette in Add-Remove 
programs Start-Up Disk (or EBD, Emergency Boot Disk) and then start the computer 
with the diskette in the A: drive.

To get out is easy with ME, just press Ctrl+Alt+Del  and the computer will re-boot.

You should really have a bootdiskette made from YOUR system, but if this is not possible 
just download the ME OEM bootdisk from the BOOTDISK link above to any computer's 
hard drive. Put a floppy in the A: drive and double click the file. This will make 
you a bootdisk. (Make TWO)

Put it in your own computer and start up.

Choose Minimal boot and allow the A:\> prompt to load. Now type:

A:\>copy c:\windows\command\ebd a:\

(Or is that: A:\>copy c:\windows\command\ebd\*.* a:\ ) I forget. So try them both. 

Take the first bootdiskette out and put a THIRD bank formatted floppy in the A: drive 
and then press Enter.

This should copy the correct files for your system to the bootdiskette.

If it fails then you have the second bootdiskette which will still be useable.

Is that the only problem you have?
Mac

WINDOWS SUPPORT  RAM

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Mac, thanks for that advice! With it, I finally got into DOS. The reason I need to get into DOS was to run scanreg/restore. The orginal problem was the Blue Screen of Death on booting up - getting into DOS and running scanreg/restore solved it. Thanks again for your help!


On Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 7:06 am, rob wrote:
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>I've googled this and have not found one direct answer yet....do any of ye guyz know
>how to boot into DOS safely from WindowsMe?
>
>More importantly how do I get out?

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