Re: How can i install and boot to MS-DOS

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On Apr 11, 9:03 pm, "John John (MVP)" <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Olicaca wrote:
Ok,thank you!

You're welcome.

There is another way that might/should also work.

1- Create a boot floppy for the XP installation:

Boot to the Windows XP installation and format a floppy diskette. The
diskette *must* be formatted with Widnows XP, if it is formatted with
Windows 9x/MS-DOS the boot diskette will fail to boot Windows XP.

After the diskette is formatted copy the file ntldr, NTDETECT.COM &
boot.ini from the root of the XP drive onto the diskette.

2- Try to boot to Windows XP with the diskette. Shutdown the computer,
go in the BIOS and change the boot order so that the diskette is set as
the first boot device. Insert the diskette in the computer and boot to
Windows XP with it.

3- If you can successfully boot to Windows XP with the diskette, shut
down the computer and change the Active partition to the MS-DOS partition.

4- Boot with to Windows XP with the floppy boot diskette. Even if the
MS-DOS partition is the Active partition, (which it must for this
method) you will still be able to boot XP with the floppy diskette.
After the XP installation is booted you can use the Disk Management tool
to verify the active status of the partitions, the MS-DOS must be the
active partition.

5- Install the Recovery Console. While booted to the XP installation
insert your Windows XP cd in the drive and in the Start Menu-> Run box
issue the following command:

d:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons

where d is the drive letter for the CD-ROM drive.

This will launch the install routine for the Recovery Console. When the
installation sees the MS-DOS FAT partition as the Active partition it
will (should) create the necessary bootsect.dos file for the DOS
installation and it should copy the necessary system boot files to the
partition, create a proper boot.ini file for the operating systems and
write the proper boot sector to the partition to allow it to boot the XP
installation.

John

Hmm,sorry John because i not have enought the time to go far to buy a
floppy disk,so i will use my USB,my mainboard allow me boot from USB.I
will tell you tomorrow.Now i go to bed and take a sleep.So sleep and
felt Thank you.God bless you!
.

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