I have the DOS library on my XP hard drive and would like to copy it to a diskette and make the diskette bootable so I can start my PC at the DOS level. How do I that, please?
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I have the DOS library on my XP hard drive and would like to copy it to a diskette and make the diskette bootable so I can start my PC at the DOS level. How do I that, please?
Put a floppy in the A drive, right-click on it in explorer, pick "Format", select "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"..... Easy.
OK, but when I try this
CD C:\
I get an Invalid drive specification and I know there's a C drive because that's where my XP is.
what are you trying to do? and where are you typing this?Quote:
Originally Posted by jmsrickland
If you are in A: and you want to go to C: then you need to simply type
A:\> C: to move to C:
CD stands for change directory so for example if you want to move to say temp folder in C: then you need to type the following in C:
C:\> CD Temp
or
A:\> CD C:\Temp from A:
Hope this is what you want...
A:\> C:
Tried that too.
I'm beginning to think the problem is that the C drive (or C directory) is formatted in NTFS and not FAT32
This is correct. The partition that is labeled as "c" is probably formated as NTFS and DOS only knows FAT/FAT32. There are some NTFS drivers for DOS, but to actually get the data off the HD in DOS...you are getting nowhere fast.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmsrickland
I recommend BartPE if you need to pull some data off
So basically that mean once you format in NTFS then these boot diskettes are useless.
What I need to do is to restore a few files that belongs to XP (like boot.ini for example)
BartPE would be your best bet. Unless you want to fuss around with NTFS drivers for DOS...be my guest :).:afrog:
OK, thanks alot. I will download that BartPE.
you can download a bootdisk set for windows 2000. They take up four floppies but support ntfs. Alternatively you could run (from inside windows) the install program on the cd with the /cmdcons switch to install a boot option to boot into recovery console. Note it only works for the cd.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmsrickland