I don't use a floppy drive/ running Win2k....

[thereds]

and I want to boot up to a command prompt. Is this possible without having to use a CD?

Ideas?

 

[AndyHui]

Yes.

You are given the option to hit F8 to bring up the boot menu and go to the Win2K command console/command prompt.

If you are talking about a pure DOS prompt and not the Win2K command prompt, well, it looks like you are stuck, if you don't want to create a bootable CD that loads DOS.

 

[Czar]

on the cd there is directory called bootfloppy or something like that, in there is a program that creates the win2k bootup floppies

you could also if that works, press f8 at the boot loader and choose to go just to the command prompt

 

[zzzz]

if you want to boot to dos to flash the bios, you have to use a bootable CD.

 

[thereds]

yea thats the thing. I don't have CD either.

crap.

 

[SSP]

Can't you hook one up temporarely?

This is why still keep a floppy drive.

 

[Rallispec]

i dont have a floppy drive on my main computer either.

thier has only been one time where i've ever needed a floppy in the past year and a half... and even then i found a way around it.

 

[Bluefront]

I know this is a little late for you now, but here's what I did on all my XP installs...probably would be the same for 2k. On a clean install I install the w98 DOS version (fat32 support), also the DOS cd driver. Once that is working, I install XP....not as an upgrade, as dual-boot. Now when I boot, I can go to DOS without a floppy, or directly to XP. Works perfect if you need to run DOS programs. Both OSs are on the same "C" partition...no problems.

 

[bmacd]

Out of curiosity, what are you trying to do? Getting into the win2k command prompt should be sufficable to you unless you have some odd needs.

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