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DOS prompt

#1 Post by aznherb36 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:58 pm

Whats the button to get to the dos promp on startup??

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#2 Post by Directive » Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:03 pm

click "run" and type "command".
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#3 Post by aznherb36 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 4:27 pm

I mean bootup

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#4 Post by palmboy5 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:16 pm

yeah directive, tsk tsk tsk, pity...

i wanna know too, but isnt it like.. XP stopped having DOS along with it? its like the earlier 98 and shit were still basicly a GUI over DOS, XP doesnt, so it doesnt need to have it?
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#5 Post by aznherb36 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 6:14 pm

well whast another way to format a drive?? when i try and just boot it up it will say invald disk please replace or something like that. my friend like reformatted and put in a os when i had the problem in the begining. he had a 98se diskette.

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#6 Post by 2005 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:57 pm

use this..... its a version of dos that will run like boot disk on win xp.

EDIT how am i supposed to get the file hosted...
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#7 Post by palmboy5 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:08 pm

the world will never know
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#8 Post by Guest » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:24 pm

AIM me dawg

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#9 Post by Guest » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:42 pm


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#10 Post by 2005 » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:51 pm

sweet... that will create a disk that was supposed to be used to get into dos for the purposes of flashing a dvd drive but should provide you a way to format a drive.
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#11 Post by Guest » Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:56 pm

ok :)

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