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macarSun Dec-16-01 11:52 PM
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"Dos in XP??"


          

I am about to flash my Bios,but his must be done in Dos mode
but i don,t know how to access Dos in XP,anyone know how?

  

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EthanSun Dec-16-01 11:59 PM
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#1. "RE: Dos in XP??"
In response to macar (Reply # 0)


  

          

Boot with a Dos floppy or a win 98 startup disk. The OS doesn't matter.

Happy flashing

Ethan

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macarMon Dec-17-01 12:04 AM
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#3. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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I don,t have a Win 98 disc but how do i get Dos floppy??

  

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SonnyMon Dec-17-01 12:29 AM
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#4. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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>I don,t have a Win 98 disc but how do i get Dos floppy??

www.bootdisk.com.




  

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SonnyMon Dec-17-01 12:01 AM
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#2. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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Follow any and all instructions for flashing your Bios and make sure you understand them. The Bios procedure is done outside of Windows so XP is not used at all.




  

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macarMon Dec-17-01 12:40 AM
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#5. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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Thanks for the reply but which one do i pick in "boot disk.com".

  

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SonnyMon Dec-17-01 12:44 AM
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#6. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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Select the second one, Bootdisks by UserFriendly, then select the forth one down, Boot Disk for Windows 98SE.




  

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macarMon Dec-17-01 12:48 AM
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#8. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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Thanks,that was easy after all,will download this and try it out.

  

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GroganMon Dec-17-01 12:46 AM
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#7. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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Actually, I remember seeing in XP Pro, in the dialogue where you format a floppy disk, an option to make an MSDOS boot disk.

You don't really want to use a Windows 98 startup disk (unless you rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys files on the floppy afterwards). What you want is a clean DOS boot, with no extra drivers or memory managers loaded for bios flashing.

Alternatively get to a win9x machine and type sys a: or format a: /s to make a bare minimum DOS bootdisk.

Grogan

  

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SonnyMon Dec-17-01 12:56 AM
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#9. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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in XP, use Explorer and right click Drive A, Select Format... and it will give you the basic boot disk.




  

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GroganMon Dec-17-01 01:02 AM
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#10. "RE: Dos in XP??"
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It's confirmed. This option:



Creates a plain disk, with a blank config.sys file. The only other stuff on the disk are keyboard maps and stuff, which unless loaded in the configuration files are just files on disk.

That disk would be suitable for bios flashing purposes.

Grogan

  

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