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Is it possible to boot windows xp into DOS without a
floppy disk drive?? as the laptop which i am using does
not have one.
 
PAUL said:
Is it possible to boot windows xp into DOS without a
floppy disk drive?? as the laptop which i am using does
not have one.
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WinXP doesn't have DOS, but it does have a DOS look-alike. Press F8 when
the PC is booting and select Command Prompt Safe Mode.

If you really want to boot to DOS, get a bootable CD with DOS on it.

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Check this site out.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/

These will work for BIOS updates, running some DOS features, booting for OS
installs and so forth, but if you have drives that have been formated with
NTFS, they may not be recognized by DOS, which only tends to work with FAT
file systems.

I guess the important question is what you want to boot into dos for. If
you are trying to run old DOS software, like some games (I love playing
Bard's Tale I-III occasionally), then there is a freeware known as DOSBox
out there.

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

This is what I use to run old dos programs in Windows XP.
 
PAUL said:
Is it possible to boot windows xp into DOS without a
floppy disk drive?? as the laptop which i am using does
not have one.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, you can't.

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, included, or "ridden upon" MS-DOS. The closest they
have is the Command Prompt window.

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You could create a emergency boot disk image to a cd. I 've done it. When it
boots the cd drive becomes A:. It thinks its a floppy drive. I have it if u
need an image. I could probably email it to you.
 
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