Can't get back to Windows!

[John Barnett - MVP]

You can't start XP because of the DOS partition. Dos does
not see ntfs partitions or drives so as far as your dos
boot up is concerned xp does not exist. For dos to see
the xp partition you would need to have formatted it in
fat32 rather than ntfs. The only way round it is to get
rid of dos and then reinstall xp or keep dos and
reinstall xp using a fat32 file system. Personally dos is
redundant now and therefore i never use it.

John Barnett - MVP
Associate expert
>-----Original Message-----
>I've got an IBM portable PC with an UltraBay Plus (a bay
for either CD or
>floppy device, not both at the same time) and have my
hard drive
>partitioned in two parts.
>One is formatted NTFS, and contains Windows XP, the
other one is
>FAT32 and for now is almost empty. I've installed DOS
6.11 on the
>latter one, and when I start the computer, it only
recognizes this
>partition. I can't start XP anymore! And worse, I can't
empty my FAT32
>partition, cause command.co9m can't be removed.
>How do I either install Windows again, or return to my
original
>Windows?
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