ok...yeah...I am an idiot

[rudeguy]

I cant get windows to boot into dos...wtf?? boot from floppy....f8...but no selection...what am I doing wrong???


and yeah, I know this is the wrong forum, but if LordJezo can have naked pics of his butt on here, I can ask a small question

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
I cant get windows to boot into dos...wtf?? boot from floppy....f8...but no selection...what am I doing wrong???


and yeah, I know this is the wrong forum, but if LordJezo can have naked pics of his butt on here, I can ask a small question

:Q

 

[Deeko]

err...what version of windows do you have?

is the floppy bootable?

is your BIOS set to check the floppy first?

 

[Schadenfreude]

You're an idiot.

I can't do it either, I suppose, but at least I don't admit it . . . idiot

 

[rudeguy]

I am running xp...I had bios set to boot from from floppy, and when that didnt work I switched to cd....still no luck, I get the menu where I can boot into safe mode but thats it

 

[Zim Hosein]

IIRC, I didn't think you had the option to boot to DOS w/ Win XP rudeguy

 

[Deeko]

obviously need the floppy as XP has no DOS

What version of DOS is on the floppy? Are you sure the boot disk works? Does it seem to be accessing the floppy before booting as normal?

 

[ElFenix]

i'm basing this off my win2k knowledge, of which xp is but a frou-frou upgrade, but it doesn't have dos... so unless the floppy has dos on it... you're not getting to dos anytime soon

 

[rudeguy]

hmm...good point...I never booted into dos with this floppy...but my win98 floppy probably wouldnt have dos either?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
hmm...good point...I never booted into dos with this floppy...but my win98 floppy probably wouldnt have dos either?

No, you Win98 floppy is a boot disk, it has what's need to boot the PC and give you a CL prompt, but it's not a full version on DOS.

 

[chiwawa626]

Get a bootdisk from bootdisk.com

 

[m2kewl]

you can't boot into DOS if you're running ntfs

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: m2kewl
you can't boot into DOS if you're running ntfs

You can, you just can't access the hard drive.

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Get a bootdisk from bootdisk.com

what version of dos should I DL?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Get a bootdisk from bootdisk.com

what version of dos should I DL?

Better question, why are you trying to do this rudeguy?

 

[Windogg]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: m2kewl
you can't boot into DOS if you're running ntfs

You can, you just can't access the hard drive.

You are both wrong.

Windogg

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: chiwawa626
Get a bootdisk from bootdisk.com

what version of dos should I DL?

grrrr.....ok...heres the simple question...I need to reformat...I caught a nasty KTD (kazaa transmitted disease) and I dont feel like repairing things....I have never reformatted in xp, only win98...I know i need to get to command prompt....grrr....I hate this

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

grrrr.....ok...heres the simple question...I need to reformat...I caught a nasty KTD (kazaa transmitted disease) and I dont feel like repairing things....I have never reformatted in xp, only win98...I know i need to get to command prompt....grrr....I hate this

Boot off the XP cd. During the install process you can format your drive.

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: m2kewl you can't boot into DOS if you're running ntfs

You can, you just can't access the hard drive.

my bad - i meant you can't access Windows if it's on a ntfs partition

/will shut up now

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: rudeguy

grrrr.....ok...heres the simple question...I need to reformat...I caught a nasty KTD (kazaa transmitted disease) and I dont feel like repairing things....I have never reformatted in xp, only win98...I know i need to get to command prompt....grrr....I hate this

Boot off the XP cd. During the install process you can format your drive.

no...dont tell me its that simple...I have been messing with this for 2 weeks and all I had to do was boot off the stupid cd?

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: rudeguy

grrrr.....ok...heres the simple question...I need to reformat...I caught a nasty KTD (kazaa transmitted disease) and I dont feel like repairing things....I have never reformatted in xp, only win98...I know i need to get to command prompt....grrr....I hate this

Boot off the XP cd. During the install process you can format your drive.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: Nohr

Originally posted by: rudeguy

grrrr.....ok...heres the simple question...I need to reformat...I caught a nasty KTD (kazaa transmitted disease) and I dont feel like repairing things....I have never reformatted in xp, only win98...I know i need to get to command prompt....grrr....I hate this

Boot off the XP cd. During the install process you can format your drive.

no...dont tell me its that simple...I have been messing with this for 2 weeks and all I had to do was boot off the stupid cd?

Yep

 

[Nohr]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: Nohr
Boot off the XP cd. During the install process you can format your drive.

no...dont tell me its that simple...I have been messing with this for 2 weeks and all I had to do was boot off the stupid cd?

Si si senor.