Booting to MS-DOS

[cyberpuck]

Anyone know how to boot to MS-DOS in W2K ?

[Murf]

W2K does not have DOS.

You can get to the command prompt:

START | RUN

Type in command.com

Why DOS??????

[PostCode]

You can't do that. Windows 2000 is a pure 32-bit operating system that's built upon the NT technology. There is no DOS to speak at all within 2K. There is the NTVDM, but that's a vu=irtual DOS enviorment that 2K creates within 2K. Like the command prompt or the running of 16-bit applications.

If your Windows 2000 parition is fat32 then you could use a Windows 98 boot floppy to access the drive but if it's formatted as a NTFS drive then your pretty much out of luck.

[strangerdoom]

Originally posted by Murf
W2K does not have DOS.

You can get to the command prompt:

START | RUN

Type in command.com

Why DOS??????

you can type "cmd" instead. It's shorter

START | RUN | CMD

[PC_Junkie]

As mentioned There is no DOS with Win2K, and you can use the "command prompt". To actually get to a DOS prompt you could use a 98 boot disk, but just a note that depending what file format your drives/partitions are formatted with will determine if you can recognize those drives/partitions. If your drives/partitions are formatted with NTFS file format then booting to "DOS" isn't going to do any good, DOS won't recognize NTFS file system.

[zipulrich]

Hi PC Junkie, welcome to CTH!!
Chances are, cyberpuck hasn't been waiting a year-and-a-half for your answer, good as it is. My guess is he's moved on. But thanks for the effort!