Where is plain old DOS?

[Xeno Chauvin]

Trying to upgrade some firmware instructions are;
"Execute "update 210D017.bin" under real DOS mode."
Using F8 I could only find a "Safe Mode" with command prompt
but when I got there I could not change the directory to "C:" where
my files are.
Is there a way to set up in "real DOS" under XP?
I was only given the choice as "Administrator" under Command/Safe.
Have I been promoted to "Administrator" in DOS?
Thanks
Xeno

[Michael Kimmer]

Xeno Chauvin wrote:
> Trying to upgrade some firmware instructions are;
> "Execute "update 210D017.bin" under real DOS mode."
> Using F8 I could only find a "Safe Mode" with command prompt
> but when I got there I could not change the directory to "C:" where
> my files are.
> Is there a way to set up in "real DOS" under XP?
> I was only given the choice as "Administrator" under Command/Safe.
> Have I been promoted to "Administrator" in DOS?
> Thanks
> Xeno

There is NO DOS with XP, only an emulation, aka the /command prompt/.
Why don't you just download a Windows 98 disk from www.bootdisk.com and run
the firmware upgrade from that same disk...

--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer

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"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"

[Carl]

no...
your welcome..
but here is a sort of simulation DOS...


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[David Candy]

Format a floppy and you can choose to have it as a boot disk.

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"Xeno Chauvin" > wrote in message =
...
> Trying to upgrade some firmware instructions are;
> "Execute "update 210D017.bin" under real DOS mode."
> Using F8 I could only find a "Safe Mode" with command prompt
> but when I got there I could not change the directory to "C:" where
> my files are.
> Is there a way to set up in "real DOS" under XP?
> I was only given the choice as "Administrator" under Command/Safe.
> Have I been promoted to "Administrator" in DOS?
> Thanks
> Xeno
>=20
>

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

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."


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"Xeno Chauvin" > wrote in message
...
> Trying to upgrade some firmware instructions are;
> "Execute "update 210D017.bin" under real DOS mode."
> Using F8 I could only find a "Safe Mode" with command prompt
> but when I got there I could not change the directory to "C:" where
> my files are.
> Is there a way to set up in "real DOS" under XP?
> I was only given the choice as "Administrator" under Command/Safe.
> Have I been promoted to "Administrator" in DOS?
> Thanks
> Xeno
>
>

[Xeno Chauvin]

"David Candy" > wrote in message
...
Format a floppy and you can choose to have it as a boot disk.

That's what I did and it worked now I have a correctly working CD-ROM.
(I was expecting an option as in Win 95/98
on start where you could choose a DOS start instead of Windows.)
Thanks for your help.
Xeno