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re: A DOS Window is available......
Thursday, June 10, 2004 at 5:37 am
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Posted by Wingot Dingus (1 messages posted)

The reason you can't see the 77 GB is because that is formatted as NTFS and not FAT or FAT32. Command.com cannot read NTFS without windows running in the background (some drivers have been created for dos to allow the access of NTFS drives, altough you would have to find those yourself)

On Wednesday, April 14, 2004 at 11:21 am, Casey Ulrich wrote:
>well i have teh sam problem.... i was hacking my ntoskrnl.exe to change my bootscreen....all
>i did was change bitmaps 1,8,10 to my liking and copied the new one over the old
>ntoskrnl.exe and now for some reason windows wont even start, and when i tryto boot
>into safemode w/ or w/o command prompt it wont load ntoskrnl.exe ......and when i
>formated a floppy disk to boot me into dos it works but...when i switch over to c:\
>it only allows me to see the 3gig partition i have setup...witch contains only my
>computer games, it will not allow me to see the stuff on the other 77gigs of space
>witch contains my OS i tried typing "cd windows" while in c:\ and it cant find it
>then i typed "dir" and all it showed was my game folders....WHAT THE HELL DO I DO!!??

Written in response to:: re: A DOS Window is available...... (Casey Ulrich: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 at 11:21 am)

Responses to this message:
re: A DOS Window is available...... (jason: Monday, July 26, 2004 at 11:31 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)

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