Booting xp from dos [Archive] - Overclockers Forums

Tabasco

11-21-01, 09:56 AM

Ok i know this question may already been posted but I can't find it.

:(

N E 1 know the dos commands as with win2000, that will start the setup even though my bios wont boot from cd.
is it this ?
winnt\i386 \winnt.exe

NEWBIE QUESTION:
How do you do it?

R0BB23

11-21-01, 10:46 AM

i had a problem where i couldnt boot from disk either so i got the boot disk for it heres a link

http://www.etplanet.com/windows/bootdisk/

and i dont think there is a dos command

PolyPill

11-21-01, 12:42 PM

win2k and winxp aren't dos based, so it's impossible to start them from dos. If you're having problems getting them to boot, maybe you should post that. Even with the win2k installation disks you can't boot win2k, which has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ok, not quite, but it's up there

R0BB23

11-21-01, 12:52 PM

to boot from dos yes, to boot the disk outside of windows no.

and could you please be a little nicer when dealing with ppl who dont know such things.

this isnt [H].:)

Jon

11-21-01, 02:31 PM

I don't think he was calling anyone stupid...looked to me he was referring not being able to boot into Win2K with the 4-disk set as being stupid.

Think you might have misread it a little. I didn't see any insulting tone in his reply.

Yodums

11-21-01, 02:59 PM

the only ways you can boot into the setup is Bootdisk or boot from the cd .. And you'll need to use the Win XP or 2K bootdisks depending on what your installing obviously you can't run it from dos like win 9x

Tabasco

11-21-01, 03:24 PM

Originally posted by PolyPill
win2k and winxp aren't dos based, so it's impossible to start them from dos. If you're having problems getting them to boot, maybe you should post that. Even with the win2k installation disks you can't boot win2k, which has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ok, not quite, but it's up there

I asked after something I read on the net about typing commands to get the disk to start the installation, after an unconditional format I run the microsoft xp start up disks I downloaded all 6 of them and it worked, so now I'm running XP from a clean install,
Thanks for the help