I have a question about Boot Directly into DOS:

Is it possible to boot directly into DOS using WinXP?

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Windows NT is not built on top of DOS. There is a DOS emulation provided, so the real question is why do you want to boot into DOS? You can use a Win98 startup disk if your hard drives are formatted as FAT32.


On Monday, June 9, 2003 at 6:46 am, Joseph Dinwiddie wrote:
>I have a question about Boot
>Directly into DOS:

>Is it possible to boot directly into DOS using WinXP?
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I suppose because I know some DOS commands.







On Monday, June 9, 2003 at 6:54 am, Ricer46 wrote:

>Windows NT is not built on top of DOS. There is a DOS emulation provided, so the 

>real question is why do you want to boot into DOS? You can use a Win98 startup disk 

>if your hard drives are formatted as FAT32.

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i want to boot to dos on 2 machines one win xp and one me reason:- 1) i want a choice of operating systems 2)i want a choice of packages to run gwbasic ,cad , linux windows and others then i can choose from a menu what i want to run is it possible at the moment i only have me and xp running on 2 different machines . although there is lots of info. on net available nobody gives a straight answer i am not fully au fait with dos but capable enough to introduce a menu to execute alternative boots but iam more interested in running applications but it seems an impossible task these days any help appreciated


On Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 6:24 pm, Joseph Dinwiddie wrote:
>I suppose because I know some DOS commands.
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Straight forward answer: You can boot into dos by using a floppy disk containing dos or a bootup disk from an older OS, like ME... Bootdisks can be found from http://www.bootdisk.com, i think they may have DOS available for DL as well.. My problem? This laptop doesn't have a disk drive.. My search continues...

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Thanks for the info.


On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 2:53 pm, matt wrote:
>Straight forward answer:
>
>You can boot into dos by using a floppy disk containing dos or a bootup disk from
>an older OS, like ME...
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>Bootdisks can be found from http://www.bootdisk.com, i think they may have DOS available
>for DL as well..
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>My problem? This laptop doesn't have a disk drive.. My search continues...

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Despite what you may see from some message boards, yes, it is possible to boot into DOS even though you have WINXP installed, and it hasn't anything to do with NTFS or FAT-32, and all you need is a blank floppy disk. Put the disk in the drive. Then, right click on the icon for the 3 1/2 Floppy A: drive, and select FORMAT. It opens a box from which you will select the option "Create an MS-DOS startup disk". Click OK, and it creates the boot disk for you. The next time you reboot, make sure you have the floppy in the drive, and/or go into your BIOS and select the boot order so that it will boot from that floppy. When you are done with everything you want to do in DOS, just hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and it will restart into XP. (if you changed the boot order in the BIOS make sure to change it back to the first boot being from the HD) Good luck!

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