DOS

[Mattaconda]

How do I reboot into DOS mode?

[Chris Lanier]

Windows XP doesnt include DOS

"Mattaconda" > wrote in message
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> How do I reboot into DOS mode?

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Mattaconda > typed:

> How do I reboot into DOS mode?


There is no DOS in Windows XP, and you can not do this.

Your only choice is to boot from a DOS diskette. However, if your
drive is NTFS, you won't be able to see it (at least not without
special software). Why do you think you need to do this?

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Ken Blake
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[jane]

what is dos?

>-----Original Message-----
>How do I reboot into DOS mode?
>.
>

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

You have your facts mixed up.

DOS, or more accurately MS-DOS, is an older OS that was used as a) a primary
OS in the "old" days (10 years ago) and b) was used as a subsystem in some
older Win9x systems (notably Win3.x). This has nothing to do with WinXP,
which is based on the NT kernel and is completely unrelated to anything from
MS-DOS.

If you choose to use the term DOS as "disk operating system", then it can be
applied to any OS, be it Windows, Linux, OS/2, or BEos, as that is what they
essentially all are. But, you need to make that distinction - DOS does not
mean MS-DOS.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"NowhereMan" <eatme@thediner> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:55:47 -0700, "Ken Blake"
> > wrote:
>
> >In ,
> >Mattaconda > typed:
> >
> >> How do I reboot into DOS mode?
> >
> >
> >There is no DOS in Windows XP, and you can not do this.
> >
> >Your only choice is to boot from a DOS diskette. However, if your
> >drive is NTFS, you won't be able to see it (at least not without
> >special software). Why do you think you need to do this?
> How can WinXP not be a DOS OS? The system has to boot frm the hard
> disk correct? If that is the case then it has to be a Disk Operating
> System. It obviously cannot work without booting from the hard disk.
>
> Now why has Microsoft so inconveniently gotten this NASTY ****ING
> SYSTEM out to millions of users that have as much chance in hell of
> fixing anything in it as a one legged man winning an ass kicking
> contest.
> Yes, WinXP <when it is working> is a great OS but get a bug in it and
> you may as well go out and just buy a new friggin computer.
>
> I spent 5 days trying to replace ONE file that kept me from booting to
> WinXP and finally just installed a HD that has a working XP os on it.
> I have no way of getting at all my files on the other disk because it
> will NOT OPEN!!!!!!!
>
>
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[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

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"jane" > wrote in message
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> what is dos?
>

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

You don't.

There is no way to reboot a WinXP PC into Real Mode DOS unless
you've set up a dual-boot system. The WinNT family of 32-bit
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation,
has never used or included MS-DOS. The closest they have is the
Command Prompt window.

WinXP, like its predecessors WinNT & Win2K, is a pure 32-bit GUI
OS, and does not include or "ride upon" any version of DOS, as did
Win3.x & Win9x/Me. WinXP does include a command-line emulator for
those times when GUI applets are unnecessary/redundant, but it cannot
be started in "DOS mode."


Bruce Chambers

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"Mattaconda" > wrote in message
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> How do I reboot into DOS mode?

[David]

"jane" > wrote in news:212401c38486$7a8b75f0
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> what is dos?
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>How do I reboot into DOS mode?
>>.
>>

DOS was the original Microsoft Operating System for computer. It used a
Command Lne Interface ( CLI ). Then, MS came out with Windows 3.x which
was a Graphical User Interface ( GUI ) that ran over DOS. Next came Win
9.x, It was a GUI OS with a DOS susbsystem. Now we have XP, Which like NT
and 2000 have an NT kernal rather then a DOS kernal. You can use the DOS
Emulator built-in to XP if you still need to work from the CLI.

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