startup in dos mode?

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does anyone know how to startup winXP home edition in
pure dos mode without using floppies?(win98 used to
support that).

Vaibhav.
 
vaibhav said:
does anyone know how to startup winXP home edition in
pure dos mode without using floppies?(win98 used to
support that).

Vaibhav.
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So, just because 98 did, XP ought to too, right? I gotta love your logic!
The short answer is, you cannot. DOS is dead.
 
vaibhav said:
does anyone know how to startup winXP home edition in
pure dos mode without using floppies?(win98 used to
support that).
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Windows XP no longer supports the plain DOS mode. Plain DOS should not
be necessary any longer except for to run very old DOS programs.
Also see "Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314058)
 
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vaibhav said:
does anyone know how to startup winXP home edition in
pure dos mode without using floppies?(win98 used to
support that).
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Unlike Windows 98, Windows XP is not based on DOS, and there is
no DOS within it to start. It is not possible to do what you
want.
 
vaibhav said:
does anyone know how to startup winXP home edition in
pure dos mode without using floppies?(win98 used to
support that).

Vaibhav.
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Using F8, you can boot to Safe Mode With Command Prompt. Technically,
it's not DOS, but it is similar.

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Greetings --

There is no way to reboot a WinXP PC into Real Mode DOS unless
you've set up a dual-boot system. The WinNT family of 32-bit
graphical operating systems, of which WinXP is the latest generation,
has never used or included MS-DOS. The closest they have is the
Command Prompt window.

WinXP, like its predecessors WinNT & Win2K, is a pure 32-bit GUI
OS, and does not include or "ride upon" any version of DOS, as did
Win3.x & Win9x/Me. WinXP does include a command-line emulator for
those times when GUI applets are unnecessary/redundant, but it cannot
be started in "DOS mode."


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what if you were to install the DOS operating system onto your computer, DOS is great.....
 
DOS may have been great in its day, but so few programs are written for DOS,
what productive thing can anyone do with it?

What motivated the announcement of this startling discovery? Did something
cosmic and wonderful happen to you on a DOS-based computer that motivated you to
post this announcement in the microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics newsgroup?

Curiously,
Moi
| what if you were to install the DOS operating system onto your computer, DOS
is great.....
 
Many larger companies have custom built dos programs that they reley on.
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Even for new development, there is still a place for an operating
system that doesn't try to do much. With a DOS extender to bust the
640K limit, DOS might be the system of choice for something that's
_really_ compute-bound, such as economic input/output modelling, which
is mostly about manipulating large matrices of floating-point numbers,
or cryptanalysis, or looking for the next Mersenne prime number. For
such specialized work, you want the OS to stay out of the way most of
the time. A limousine makes a lousy tractor.
 
my main concern is about my old games that need DOS to run.... since i just got XP i have to goto these new games, i can't stay with the old classics... Warcraft 2..... would installing an old DOS operating system fix that?...

serious DOS was and will always have "PURPOSE" you can't just go around deleting OS because you wanna make it obsolete, thats not fair to the consumer
 
Greetings --

Warcraft 2 was a Win95/98/NT game. (I'm reading the system
requirements on the CD's jewel case.) It should run OK on WinXP,
particularly if you use a Win9x compatibility mode.

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rob clark said:
my main concern is about my old games that need DOS to run.... since
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i just got XP i have to goto these new games, i can't stay with the
old classics... Warcraft 2..... would installing an old DOS operating
system fix that?....
serious DOS was and will always have "PURPOSE" you can't just go
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around deleting OS because you wanna make it obsolete, thats not fair
to the consumer
 
they released a version of warcraft 2 called the battle.net edition, but i dont have nor feel like buying another version of it right now...but if i installed like dos. 5.0 would it make it work or screw up xp?
 
Warcraft 2 Demo version does not work on XP. Someone borrowed the full version and never saw it again so can't test that. Warcraft 1 full DOES work on XP.,

I was in Warceaft withdrawal and having lost the original disk, redownloaded the demo. The full game may work.
 
i tried the warcraft 2 tides of darkness but it doesn't work on my XP, maybe it works on systems that have been upgraded to XP.... i bought my computer with plain xp so maybe it has different compatibility. but the battle.net version according to the blizzard site should be workin on XP because they made it non reliant on DOS to run, but i dont have that version... im thinking about buying it but dont wanna spend money if it ain't gonna work.
 
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rob c said:
i tried the warcraft 2 tides of darkness but it doesn't work on my
XP, maybe it works on systems that have been upgraded to XP.... i
bought my computer with plain xp so maybe it has different
compatibility. but the battle.net version according to the blizzard
site should be workin on XP because they made it non reliant on DOS
to run, but i dont have that version... im thinking about buying it
but dont wanna spend money if it ain't gonna work.
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Please help us to help you. Your message is very hard to
understand.

You say you bought your computer "with plain XP." What do you
mean by "plain xp"?

You say "maybe it has different compatibility." What has
different compatability? Compatability with what?

You say " i dont have that version." What version don't you have?
What version do you have? What are you thinking of buying?
 
well for starters.... when i say "just plain XP" it means i haven't upgraded to xp from a lowers windows system.... and by saying "but the battle.net version according to the blizzard site should be workin on XP because they made it non reliant on DOS to run, but i dont have that version" i mean i dont have the battle.net version of warcraft 2.

i was thinking that the people who upgraded their computer to XP from systems that had a DOS OS like win 95/98 it may be able to play warcraft 2, but mine wont play it , and the warcraft website says that it wont play it either.
 
Windows XP does not have any sort of DOS mode built in. The closest thing
you have is the recovery console (just because it looks like a dos prompt)
but there is no dos there.

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