DOS commands are useful to Windows users for a variety of reasons. Many tasks that can be performed in the Windows graphical environment can be performed much more quickly and efficiently by utilizing DOS commands.
Also, most bootable floppy disks will boot the system directly to a DOS environment. If you ever used Windows 3. If you try that with a standard Win 95 floppy boot disk, you might see a fleeting messsage saying the "Registry File was not found.
New computer users should skip down to the next section: "Remove the boot disk SYS found in the Root Directory of your computer's hard drive.
If you can't find one of these option lines in the copy you made, then add it to the file. Save the file and copy it to your boot floppy disk. SYS file here for you to examine. This is called a "warm boot " and it saves you the trouble of having to power-down, wait a few moments and power-up again. I don't want anyone accusing me of telling them to flip that switch as fast as they can!
If your computer becomes " hung up " due to a program crash or memory overrun it often 'locks-up' the keyboard as well. Thus, making it necessary to power-down before restarting this is called a "cold boot ". Your Boot Disk has been created and tested. Now it's time to add some utility programs to it. COM file on the floppy has the same date as the one on your HD. COM boot file stats are: 93, bytes a.
BAT files, for example. If you use any "devicehigh" or "loadhigh" LH statements in your config. Having them on the floppy disk ensures you can boot-up the computer with access to upper and extended memory even if the hard drive has been damaged.
In the Windows Explorer , you can highlight them and drag them onto the A:drive icon do NOT depress the Shift key while doing so, or you'll erase them from your hard drive! You can, of course, use one of the many other methods that may be more familiar to you. Almost everything you need to do with your computer can be done in many different ways! You guessed it! They are:. These files see the examples below! By default, Setup removes the forced configuration and some hardware does not work properly after this is done.
Use settings in the specified script to install Windows 98 automatically; for example, setup msbatch. You must specify the full file name. The setup script file name must be eight characters long with a three-character extension 8.
This directory must already exist, but any existing files in the directory will be deleted. All rights reserved. Some symptoms of a problem are:. If you are running DOS 5. When you use fdisk with the mbr parameter, the Master Boot Record is rewritten to the hard disk without altering the partition table information on the disk.
To run this utility, follow these steps:. Search Microsoft Support.
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