Re: Reboot win2k into dos on ramdisk?

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Ken Halter wrote:
"mike" <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:hcnzj.14385$ES.10055@xxxxxxxxxxx
This all started when I was trying to do an OS install on a legacy free laptop that wouldn't boot from anything but the internal hard drive.
I could load the drive on a different system, but couldn't, at the time, figger out how to install the os onto the drive it booted from.

Sounds to me like you've already spent **far** too much time trying to get this, supposedly "Free" laptop to do what you want. Therefore, it's best to turn than thing into landfill and buy a *real* laptop.

So, I'm not interested in how wonderful win2k is or how to run stuff from win2k.

Obviously, it's far more capable than that laptop you keep trying to resurrect... since there seems to be no one to hand you the "magic bullet", how about a 9mm round right through the screen/keyboard of that "Free" laptop <g>... I imagine this is the same beast you wanted a way to flip all windows upside down in, eh?

I'm interested in learning how the drive imaging programs reboot
to an OS on a ramdisk. It happens every day, but the process
is either secret or immune to my google search terms.

One thing I guarantee... it's not done in VB. VB requires runtime files. VB can-not run from DOS. There are DOS versions of VB. Buy a new laptop.


I HAVE a new laptop.

What I want is a way to boot into dos on a random computer who's OS
can't reboot into native dos...and do it without having to install a bunch of additional crap.

And I'll spend exactly as much time as I like on the subject.

If you're worried about how much time YOU spend on the project, that can
be easily resolved with YOUR delete key.

You have succeeded in convincing me that if I want ANYTHING off the well beaten path, I'm not gonna find it here.

Bye for now...but I'll be back next time I have a SIMPLE question.

Press that delete key now, before you get the urge to give me more
"guarantees".

mike

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