Reboot to DOS using XP?

[Judgement]

Is there anyway to reboot XP to a DOS prompt without needing to use a boot disk?

I know you could in 98, and I miss being able to do it since I haven't found a way. Using disks are annoying :\

 

[Ipno]

Out of curiosity, why do you want to do this?

And to answer your question, in theory you could install the recovery console and boot to that which is kindof dos-like, or you could install windows 98 or something and dual boot with loadgui=0 in the boot.ini for windows.

 

[Dufman]

no
winxp isnt built on the dos core like win9x

 

[Judgement]

Alight :\

 

[SilkySmooth]

You can't reboot to DOS like you are thinking of in Win98 but you CAN boot to any other OS using bootmenu. As Ipno suggested you can install a second OS like DOS. The question remains... why DOS? At least if it were LINUX I could understand

 

[Judgement]

I occasionally run programs that have to be run from DOS, but I don't like even hooking a floppy drive up to my computers anymore.

Especially since 3 of the last 4 drives I've had were DOA or failed in less then a month.

 

[johnlog]

YOu can boot up to DR DOS. Put the DOS disk in drive A:\ and boot up your computer. XP will not load so in order to run Windows just take the DR DOS disk out of drive A: and reboot to XP or Win9x.

 

[VicodiN]

Boot disk is the only way...

www.bootdisk.com

 

[septiroth]

you think there would be a really good DOS emulator for windows(linux got it) that would run all of our oldie but goodie games well!
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