DOs prompt

[icydelight]

Hi! I had to change my motherboard and now have a bunch of quirks to fix.
I need to make a bootable system disk. It`s been so long. How do I find the Dos prompt. Not the one within Xp but the other one? From there I`ll be able to make a boot disk and try the instructions in my new motherboard`s manual..

[snowmaker]

Doesn't the manual give the instructions for how to make a bootdisk? I have no idea what you mean by 'the other one'. In XP (Home, anyway), click START, RUN, then type 'cmd' to get a command prompt. Or you can type 'command'. Maybe that's the other one?

[satis]

I'm thinking maybe he's remembering the old win9x full DOS stuff, where you can boot to a dos prompt without going through windows.

Hate to tell you this, but that doesn't work with NT/2000/XP/2003. There is no full DOS prompt. You'd be best server to find a disk image online that'll get you to dos, from some place like http://www.bootdisk.com/

And, then, there's another small issue. If you're using an NT-based O/S, there's a very good chance you're using NTFS, and DOS can't see it. So, even if you boot in with regular DOS, you can't see your harddrive. If that doesn't matter, then good, but otherwise you'll have to find a DOS-based NTFS driver, or something similar. Not knowing what you're trying to accomplish, I'll stop here.

[snowmaker]

I'm thinking maybe he's remembering the old win9x full DOS stuff, where you can boot to a dos prompt without going through windows.
Yeah, I bet you're right. I didn't think of that.

[icydelight]

That is what I meant... The boot disk site sounds like a good lead.

WHoever wrote ASUS's motherboard manual must not like to explain basic things such as how to make a boot disk for us xp users...

In the end I'm just trying to get a well functionning machine.

Thanks to you both for helping

Icy

[Fab5ISO]

You will most likely have to reactivate Windows after a motherboard swap.

[XJnick]

WHoever wrote ASUS's motherboard manual must not like to explain basic things such as how to make a boot disk for us xp users...

Hi,

It's really not the motherboard manufaturer's responsibility to walk you through Operating System installation, etc... So I wouldn't find it surprising that they don't cover things like that in their manual. Plus, they have no way of knowing what OS their product will be used with on any given machine. Could be Windows, Linux, Unix, FreeBSD etc... and then they'd likely have to give instructions for setting up all these OSes if they covered OS installation in the manual.

You'll have to go to Microsoft if you need specific help about Windows (but I'm sure it's not cheap :D ). Otherwise you could try to find a more specific Windows forum.

[XJnick]

You will most likely have to reactivate Windows after a motherboard swap.

That's my favorite feature of Windows XP -- It's so convienient to have to reactivate your OS after every hardware change or reinstall. </sarcasm>

[winbyte]

Im not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish here. Did your harddrive and XP work ok with the old motherboard? If so then just make sure that your cmos on the new motherboard is setup correctly and then be prepared to re-setup some of your hardware when you get prompted. You should not have to reactivate XP once you are done. So unless you are doing a complete reformat and reload then make sure that your new boards cmos/bios is setup up correctly to see the harddrive and such then you should not have any major problems.

[IanS]

Im not sure I understand what you are trying to accomplish here. Did your harddrive and XP work ok with the old motherboard? If so then just make sure that your cmos on the new motherboard is setup correctly and then be prepared to re-setup some of your hardware when you get prompted. You should not have to reactivate XP once you are done. So unless you are doing a complete reformat and reload then make sure that your new boards cmos/bios is setup up correctly to see the harddrive and such then you should not have any major problems.XP Pro requires re-activation after changing major pieces of hardware so changing a motherboard would trigger that. Changing a hard drive or a network card are other triggers.