re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 2:32 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Tony Jay (77 messages posted) Unless you have: A. A boot floppy with DOS on it B. DOS installed on a partition and set up as a boot option you can't. XP is NT-based, and does not sit on top of DOS like Windows 9x or earlier. If you really need a DOS prompt for some reason, you can format a floppy in XP as an MS-DOS startup disk. Just right-click on your floppy drive, select Format, and check that option. Written in response to: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Ashe Corven: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 2:05 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Nathan: Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 5:43 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Ashe Corven: Wed, Dec 19, 2001, 2:05 am) re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Tony Jay: Wed, Dec 19, 2001, 2:32 am) re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (Nathan: Wed, Apr 6, 2005, 5:43 pm) re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (noonsailing: Sat, Feb 25, 2006, 2:26 pm) Given that XP contains NO "DOS" of its own at all (only an emulation) . . (Kiwi: Sat, Feb 25, 2006, 2:55 pm) re: Given that XP contains NO "DOS" of its own at all (only an emulation) . . (Nathan: Sat, Jun 24, 2006, 7:33 pm) re: Given that XP contains NO "DOS" of its own at all (only an emulation) . . (Chris: Wed, Mar 14, 2007, 9:52 pm) A DOS Window is available...... (Tom S: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 5:53 am) re: A DOS Window is available...... (John Smith: Fri, Dec 26, 2003, 9:10 am) re: A DOS Window is available...... (Rublore: Fri, Feb 13, 2004, 5:42 pm) re: A DOS Window is available...... (Casey Ulrich: Wed, Apr 14, 2004, 11:21 am) re: A DOS Window is available...... (Wingot Dingus: Thu, Jun 10, 2004, 5:37 am) re: A DOS Window is available...... (jason: Mon, Jul 26, 2004, 11:31 pm) re: Question about 'Boot Directly into DOS' (RJC33: Sat, Sep 22, 2007, 2:32 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum