Boot to C: prompt

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To do this you need a multiboot arrangement with real DOS as one of the
systems.

W2k & NT/XP do not contain real DOS, just a DOS simulator. Win3.x and
Win9x/ME were fancy interfaces running on top of real DOS.

In W2k you can't boot to anything but W2k. Maybe you can make the
command prompt part of your startup list; I'm not certain whether you
can or whether that would help you.
 
What is your larger goal? Why do you want to do this? Also, does the system
in question use FAT or NTFS for its boot partition? If NTFS, you would not
be able to access the drive. Now, for recovery, there is the recovery
console, if installed. That does give you a command prompt, and a limited
subset of commands, after you log on as administrator, and you can use it
for troubleshooting and, well, recovery.
 
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