Bootable DOS diskette........anybody ??

[Mrburns2007]

geez just trying to get to an A: or C: has been a pain in the ass with XP anybody have a working bootable DOS diskette they could upload ???????????????:

 

[kranky]

bootdisk.com

 

[Mrburns2007]

thx.....definitly saving that webpage

 

[MrCodeDude]

Dude. Go to My Computer

Right Click Floppy Drive (A -> Format -> Make MS-DOS Boot disk
-- mrcodedude

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Dude. Go to My Computer

Right Click Floppy Drive (A -> Format -> Make MS-DOS Boot disk
-- mrcodedude

heh, what he said works like a charm

 

[Harvey]

Or do it the old fashioned way. From the DOS prompt, type:

SYS A: <Enter>

If you want to pick up an extra 69K, type:

DELTREE/Y A:\DRVSPACE.BIN <Enter>

It's a hidden fils you won't need for anything you do with a bootable floppy.

 

[Mrburns2007]

Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
Dude. Go to My Computer

Right Click Floppy Drive (A -> Format -> Make MS-DOS Boot disk
-- mrcodedude

Did that and then rebooted but got an error message. The files all copied onto the floppy but it won't boot at all.

 

[Mrburns2007]

Originally posted by: Harvey
Or do it the old fashioned way. From the DOS prompt, type:

SYS A: <Enter>

If you want to pick up an extra 69K, type:

DELTREE/Y A:\DRVSPACE.BIN <Enter>

It's a hidden fils you won't need for anything you do with a bootable floppy.

D:\Documents and Settings\LEVELONE>sys a:
'sys' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

 

[Harvey]

Change to C:\ You must be on the drive where your system files MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS are located, which is probably the root directory of C:\.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Harvey
Change to C:\ You must be on the drive where your system files MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS are located, which is probably the root directory of C:\.

I believe the command has been taken out, my 2K box won't do it either.

Viper GTS

 

[Harvey]

That's because 2K is not running on top of real MS-DOS like Win 95/95/ME.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Harvey
That's because 2K is not running on top of real MS-DOS like Win 95/95/ME.

Exactly what I was hinting at, but since he has a Documents & Settings listed in his path he's not running a 9x kernel.

BTW, I'm pretty sure as of Windows 95 there is no "real" DOS subsystem.

Viper GTS

 

[UltraQuiet]

Originally posted by: Harvey
That's because 2K is not running on top of real MS-DOS like Win 95/95/ME.

I know you meant to say 95/98/ME but does ME still run on DOS? I thought 98 was the last.

Dave


Edit-- I remember now. ME is written on the 9x code which is still DOS based........ Duh!

 

[UberNeuman]

Can I use this floppy to erase my WinXP Pro NTFS install? I'm itching to format my main drive and would like to clean it totally...

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
I believe the command has been taken out, my 2K box won't do it either.

Yeah, there is. It's called MS-DOS 7.x Text found in my copy of MSDOS.SYS (Win98 SE):

MS-DOS Version 7 (C)Copyright 1981-1995 Microsoft Corp Licensed Material - Property of Microsoft All rights reserved

Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Can I use this floppy to erase my WinXP Pro NTFS install? I'm itching to format my main drive and would like to clean it totally...

Probably not, especially if the disk is NTFS. You have to be able to run FDISK and remove whatever file system is on the disk. Older versions of FDISK may not be able to deal with newer OS versions.

Partition Magic can deal with all of them and convert one to the other. I think it will also allow you to remove everything.

 

[Mrburns2007]

Doesn't make sense that XP has "make MS-DOS diskette" but it doesn't work right.

 

[N8Magic]

This is getting way too complicated here...

To make a boot disk:

Start -----> Run
type the word cmd in the box, hit enter
at the C: prompt type: format a: /s

Voila!

 

[Mrburns2007]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
This is getting way too complicated here...

To make a boot disk:

Start -----> Run
type the word cmd in the box, hit enter
at the C: prompt type: format a: /s

Voila!

Ok, that actually works hmmm wonder why the right click method doesn't work.

 

[spanky]

direct link to download of dos 6.22 boot disk