XP question that has been bugging me

[Forsteen]

I need to get into the MS-DOS prompt. Not the start menu>programs>accessories>ms-dos. I mean to restart in MS-DOS. I can't find it anywhere and on the net also. I need this to install a couple of drivers. If anyone knows that would be great.

[kvk007]

when you reboot your computer, keep pressing one of the F's buttons, i think maybe F10, till it shows you if you wanna enter SAFE mode or so. You will find a command prompt section

[RSaucier]

Boot or reboot your computer and start pressing the F8 key. You see a boot menu that will allow you to start WinXP in various ways. Select Safe Mode with Command Prompt.

IMPORTANT NOTE: There is no more "MS-DOS" in XP (supposedly).

Unless the driver is specifically for WinXP, you will likely cause O/S problems by installing a DOS mode driver in Safe Mode w/CP.

If I may ask, what requires DOS Mode installation?

Robert

[kvk007]

RSaucier, very old games may require dos installation

[RSaucier]

True -- but chances are that very old games won't run under XP.

Many DOS games tend to want to access hardware resources directly -- a BIG no-no under Windows XP. Apps that attempt direct hardware access will either crash the system (rare under XP and that makes me happy!) or just not work.

Robert

[hammondhill]

Just to confirm, there is no dos reboot option under XP. I am running XP Home, the best you could do is get a Win 98 boot disk and boot up with that, then exit the install wizard, if your hard disk is NTFS that won`t work either.

[komik]

There is no actually dos mode in XP. There is a DOS command prompt emmulator that can be used like DOS but DOS is actually not part of the XP operating system. At least that is what I have been told by our team here.

Would not recommend trying to load DOS drivers. This may and can cause the operating system to not function.

[Forsteen]

It is a driver to my old mitsumi 2x burner. It was working great and I'm to bent over it taking too long to burn. Thanks for the replies. Much appreciated.

[Metro]

Go to Start then Run & type in CMD Don't know if this is what you need but it opens a window & I've run several dos programs from there on XP home.