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Hey problem booting up please help

post #1 of 4
9/17/03 at 7:13pm
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on my fathers desktop he had a crash like a day ago and now during boot it says it cannot load dos now he says he tried booting from the cd but to no avail any ideas guys
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post #2 of 4
9/17/03 at 7:18pm
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never mind he got into dos still haveing other problems though...

from dos whats the command to open windows i know it used to be a simple win but either way when he inserts his disk to boot from cd its stalls on starting instal blah blah blah
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post #3 of 4
9/17/03 at 7:26pm
Not clear on exactly WHAT operating system your father is using. The only DOS I remember that booted from CD was PC-DOS 7.0 (and later)...

To get into Windows 3.1, one simply typed 'WIN' at the DOS prompt (as you correctly recalled).

However, if he is in DOS and 'WIN' doesn't get him anywhere, check the PATH variable (type 'PATH' at a dos prompt) to make sure the windows directory where the WIN.EXE resides is shown.

I can't believe someone is still using DOS/Win3.1, though... that's .. uh... well, that's that.

If it's Win9x, then there are all kinds of other problems and solutions. Let us know a bit more on the details and we'll see if we can help.

-myrkat
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post #4 of 4
9/17/03 at 7:37pm
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sorry thats my fault i wasnt very clear we arent running 3.1 were running xp home ( although if anyone is interested we do still have the original 3.1 disks) but no since it crashed 2 days ago his xp hasnt loaded so he booted up into dos ( the win thing was all i could remember from way back when i last used dos) and now he is in dos but is wondering if there is a command to open xp through it other than c:/win../blah/.../blah.exe

but the other question is when he tries booting from cd it stalls on starting instalation (the begining screen thing)
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