Dos Restart

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try the windows 98 boot disk

[DARKSHADOW]

your problem is windows xp isnt dos based so it it itsnt reading your h/d its not impossible to boot to dos in xp just the recovery console to run dos based progs open start menu,accessories then command promt and to switch dir use the cd command try good luck

[Xan-II]

Tried that didn't work same error

Well you know what my theory is that the win98 and the one that winXP makes (winXP makes a winME boot disk) don't recognize the NTFS file system that's probably why the say invalid drive specification cause they can only read FAT and FAT.

So probably I would need at least a windows 2000 boot disk

Sound striped o well it was a thought

[DARKSHADOW]

your problem is windows xp isnt dos based so it it itsnt reading your h/d its not impossible to boot to dos in xp just the recovery console to run dos based progs open start menu,accessories then command promt and to switch dir use the cd command try good luck

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no windows 2000 boot disk is alot different infact its got 4 boot disks and it does boot up in dos!! its for installation

[Xan-II]

Yeah I tried that I typed exacitly A:\>cd c:

but no luck

[Xan-II]

Originally posted by adthomp@13 February 2003 - 00:20
no windows 2000 boot disk is alot different infact its got 4 boot disks and it does boot up in dos!! its for installation

oh really well cross that theroy out lol

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sorry i ment it doesn't boot up in dos lol typo error

[Xan-II]

Walcome to my world, world of bad spelling a bad grammer lol

[DARKSHADOW]

if your typing A:\>cd c: thats whats wrong leave out the s:/> u just type the command u want and xp dosnt have dos just recovery and install console in xp the so call dos is call cmd.exe good luck