Hi Tim,

This is a new Dell laptop with WinXP Home Edition with a NTFS hdd. I have
booted via a Dos bootable CD rom, created on a Win98se computer, but
I can not access the NTFS hdd (if a FAT32 hdd, no problem) in order to use
a VERY IMPORTANT Dos based application that won't run unless in real Dos mode.
Because this IMPORTANT Dos based application involves editing of personal
information files, putting it on the bootable CD rom just won't work.

Putting that Dos based program on a USB Flash drive may be the
answer.
Brad


On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:56:30 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you
wrote:

>PD43 <pauld1943@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>"William of Baskerville" <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Win XP doesn't have DOS!
>>>Only the command prompt which is NOT DOS.
>>>DOS drivers won't work in XP.
>>
>>You can't read.
>>
>>One CAN boot to DOS, as the OP stated.
>
>Yes, if that's what's on the CD that he's booting from. IMHO, that's
>not very likely, but it is possible.
>
>He doesn't say what IS on that CD. It could be a WinXP CD or a Knoppix
>CD or a Solalris CD or.....