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james russel
December 5th 03, 11:04 PM
format a diskette and make ms-dos disk


>-----Original Message-----
>I have viruses and I need to go into MS-DOS to delete
>them. I need a Startup disc for win xp. So if someone
>could help me with creating one that would be cool.
>I went to Microsoft and was given directions on removing
>the virus and the directions say to turn power off
>insert "Windows Startup Disc", power on exct.
>
>Thanks
>.
>

Ken Blake
December 5th 03, 11:04 PM
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james russel > typed:

> format a diskette and make ms-dos disk


This may or may not work. If the hard drive is NTFS, the DOS
diskette will not be able to access it.

There is third-party software, such as NTFSDOS, that allows DOS
access to NTFS disks, but a plain DOS diskette won't do it.

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have viruses and I need to go into MS-DOS to delete
>>them. I need a Startup disc for win xp. So if someone
>>could help me with creating one that would be cool.
>>I went to Microsoft and was given directions on removing
>>the virus and the directions say to turn power off
>>insert "Windows Startup Disc", power on exct.
>>
>>Thanks
>>.

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