re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 12:06 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by napoleon (1 messages posted) There's an effective way to enter pure and stand-alone dos on a machine with Windows XP, not using F8. Divide the hard drive into at least 2 main partition and install DOS on one of them. (U may use PQMagic to create a main partition other than the existing one by dividing it without data loss. By the way, it's better to make it the first partition 'cause many versions of DOS don't support large disk. ) Backup the bootrecord of the partition to a file, say, bootrec.bin. (You may use BootPart. It's a freeware.) Add "c:\bootrec.bin" (the drive specified may be different) to boot.ini under [operating systems] and it works. On Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 1:14 pm, Zoltan Toth wrote: >I have a question about Contents >of the MSDOS.SYS File: >is there a way to stop WindowsXP to boot in dos mode by pressing F8? Win9X ME and >2000 has MSDOS.SYS, WindowsXP is different. >Thanks - Zoltan > > Written in response to: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Zoltan Toth: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 1:14 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Zoltan Toth: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 1:14 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Adam the Wiseguy: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 1:34 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Zoltan Toth: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 2:40 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (jagged ben: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 6:00 pm) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (Rob Kennedy: Wed, Feb 5, 2003, 11:11 am) re: Question about 'Contents of the MSDOS.SYS File' (napoleon: Tue, Mar 25, 2003, 12:06 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