Booting directly in to DOS

I have a very old laptop (95 or 96?), and this thing is a piece of garbage. you only have about 20 minutes of power...Does anyone know anyway to boot directly in to dos prompt, skipping windows totally? thanks


slick

Which Windows is installed?

In win 98se/ME

Hit F8 repeatedly until the boot options screen appears. Choose DOS prompt only


In win2k.. same thing.


In winXP.. You have to insert the windows xp install disk and go thru the recovery console.


For win98/me/2k You could also put a boot disc in.

its Windows 95, and i don't have a boot ddisk, this laptop came preloaded....also, it has no CD-ROM drive, just a diskette drive


slick

That means DoS 6.2 should be under there somewhere.

Try F4 as it's booting (just after the BIOS test).

You may want to look at this as well: http://www.bootdisk.com/

look for a file called msdos.sys

there should be a line in there (something like BootBlah=1)

i'm not sure (haven't been on a non-NT box in sooo long...)

Change this Boot value to 0 and it should go into Dos...

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ok, i found a page that explains all this...
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-021

Quote:

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BootGUI={Boolean}
Default: 1
Purpose: A setting of 1 forces the loading of the GUI interface. A setting of 0 disables the loading of the GUI interface.

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