boot disk can't find hard drive

Hi,

Why is it when I use a DOS boot disk I can
only find the floppy drive and the DVD
drive. The same if I use a W98 bootable CD.

Next question: Where are the Registry files
system.dat and so on in XPhome?

Thnx,
Taylor

Windows XP is not based on the old MS-DOS platform,
hence there is no DOS to boot into.

What feat are you trying to accomplish?

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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"Taylor" wrote:

| Hi,
|
| Why is it when I use a DOS boot disk I can
| only find the floppy drive and the DVD
| drive. The same if I use a W98 bootable CD.
|
| Next question: Where are the Registry files
| system.dat and so on in XPhome?
|
| Thnx,
| Taylor

Taylor wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Why is it when I use a DOS boot disk I can only find the floppy drive
> and the DVD drive. The same if I use a W98 bootable CD.
>
> Next question: Where are the Registry files system.dat and so on in XPhome?
>
> Thnx,
> Taylor

MS-DOS and Windows 9X DOS cannot see NTFS partitions. But
there is a NTFS file system driver that can be downloaded
from www.sysinternals.com --- ntfsdos.exe.

System.dat and related files can be found in the \winnt\repair
folder.

Holy Shi*! I gotta hand it to you. Now I can
boot to DOS and see all the drives and
copy files and everything. Why does
everybody else in the world say you can't do
that with XP.

Thanks again,
Taylor




"Ghostrider" <-00-@fitron.142> wrote in
message
news:uFkQgDNDGHA.1676@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> Taylor wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Why is it when I use a DOS boot disk I
>> can only find the floppy drive and the
>> DVD drive. The same if I use a W98
>> bootable CD.
>>
>> Next question: Where are the Registry
>> files system.dat and so on in XPhome?
>>
>> Thnx,
>> Taylor
>
> MS-DOS and Windows 9X DOS cannot see NTFS
> partitions. But
> there is a NTFS file system driver that
> can be downloaded
> from www.sysinternals.com --- ntfsdos.exe.
>
> System.dat and related files can be found
> in the \winnt\repair
> folder.

Taylor wrote:

> Holy Shi*! I gotta hand it to you. Now I can
> boot to DOS and see all the drives and
> copy files and everything. Why does
> everybody else in the world say you can't do
> that with XP.


Beacuse you *can't* do it with XP.

However you *can* do it with third-party software, as many of us here have
often pointed out.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> "Ghostrider" <-00-@fitron.142> wrote in
> message
> news:uFkQgDNDGHA.1676@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Taylor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Why is it when I use a DOS boot disk I
>>> can only find the floppy drive and the
>>> DVD drive. The same if I use a W98
>>> bootable CD.
>>>
>>> Next question: Where are the Registry
>>> files system.dat and so on in XPhome?
>>>
>>> Thnx,
>>> Taylor
>>
>> MS-DOS and Windows 9X DOS cannot see NTFS
>> partitions. But
>> there is a NTFS file system driver that
>> can be downloaded
>> from www.sysinternals.com --- ntfsdos.exe.
>>
>> System.dat and related files can be found
>> in the \winnt\repair
>> folder.