Re: windows dos

From: greyhwk (greyhwk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:04:01 -0700

Check this site out.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/

These will work for BIOS updates, running some DOS features, booting for OS
installs and so forth, but if you have drives that have been formated with
NTFS, they may not be recognized by DOS, which only tends to work with FAT
file systems.

I guess the important question is what you want to boot into dos for. If
you are trying to run old DOS software, like some games (I love playing
Bard's Tale I-III occasionally), then there is a freeware known as DOSBox
out there.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

This is what I use to run old dos programs in Windows XP.

"PAUL" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:15fd01c4a09f$d570a4f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Is it possible to boot windows xp into DOS without a
> floppy disk drive?? as the laptop which i am using does
> not have one.

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