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How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by Supersonicdarky on 03-01-2005 at 12:29 PM
Does anyone know?
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by RaceProUK on 03-01-2005 at 01:29 PM
During the booting sequence, keep tapping F8 till you get a boot menu. Then you can choose DOS mode there.
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by Chris.1 on 03-01-2005 at 04:56 PM
From the title, it sounds like you are in DOS and want to boot Windows? At the c Prompt type "win"... it should load windows
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by matty on 03-01-2005 at 05:04 PM
Rebote the PC and tap the F8 key. It choose Command Prompt. If F8 doesn't get you to this menu tap F5 instead.
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by Ahmad on 03-02-2005 at 12:04 AM
Or you can make a start-up disk and boot up from that.
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by CookieRevised on 03-02-2005 at 12:52 AM
Note that when you boot up in DOS by pressing F8 during the Windows boot up, that you'll never truely boot up in DOS but always in a DOS-session under Windows!!!
If you realy want to boot up in true DOS, you'll need to make your own startup menu and most importantly have a DOS bootrecord, not a Windows bootrecord.
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by matty on 03-02-2005 at 01:35 AM
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Note that when you boot up in DOS by pressing F8 during the Windows boot up, that you'll never truely boot up in DOS but always in a DOS-session under Windows!!!
Ummm isn't that Windows 2000/XP and up? Because if you goto Command Prompt it is loading to DOS I was under the impression of that.
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by ShawnZ on 03-02-2005 at 01:55 AM
He is running dos and he wants to start windows 
If it doesnt start automaticily like it should, you could reinstall, or just type WIN every time you get to the dos prompt.
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by SikStyles on 03-02-2005 at 02:13 AM
hold power button down 5 secs and voila 
then press it again and go crazy on F5 or F8 and then choose DOS and have fun 
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by matty on 03-02-2005 at 02:17 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Shawnz
He is running dos and he wants to start windows
quote:
Originally posted by SikStyles
hold power button down 5 secs and voila
then press it again and go crazy on F5 or F8 and then choose DOS and have fun
Just press CTRL+ALT+DEL
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by SikStyles on 03-02-2005 at 02:18 AM
quote:twice
Originally posted by Matty
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by ShawnZ on 03-02-2005 at 02:22 AM
quote:
Originally posted by SikStyles
quote:twice
Originally posted by Matty
umm... thats what you do at the logon screen... and you can just hold down F8? besides its CTRL on win 98
... also:
quote:
Originally posted by Shawnz
He is running dos and he wants to start windows
but you seem to be reading it as 'He is running windows and he wants to start dos instead of windows during bootup'
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by matty on 03-02-2005 at 02:58 AM
This is going to be my final post in this thread to clarify everything that has been said.
To boot into DOS when using:
--> Repeatly tap the F8 or F5 key
--> From the Startup Menu choose Command Prompt Only
To reboot PC from DOS:
--> Press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice
--> type "restart" without the quotes and it should restart (Doesn't always work)
RE: How do you boot Windows 98 in DOS? by CookieRevised on 03-02-2005 at 03:37 AM
[technical sidenotes]
quote:nope, it's in all Windows, 95 and up... the bootmenu (after installing any Windows) always runs (a part of) Windows, even if you choose "DOS". It will never be true "DOS"-DOS, but "Windows"-DOS. This can give problems with some true DOS applications. It also has implications in memory management, etc...
Originally posted by Matty
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Note that when you boot up in DOS by pressing F8 during the Windows boot up, that you'll never truely boot up in DOS but always in a DOS-session under Windows!!!
Ummm isn't that Windows 2000/XP and up? Because if you goto Command Prompt it is loading to DOS I was under the impression of that.
The "Command Prompt" in Windows is indeed the best known type of "DOS console" though...