On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 01:09:43 +0200, Or Botton wrote: > Sam Ewalt wrote: >> Quite an admission from the Microsoft XP team leader!
> This looks very good! MS-DOS might be "dead" in Microsoft's eyes, > but with this kind of support, etleast the future Windows XP > revisions might have a useable command line or etleast some sort of a > "emergency text-only command mode". > Its not DOS, but its alot better then a "Cant bring up the GUI. > System is doomed." situation. Wanna' bet ??? ;-) WinME does have an accessible command line. If WinME is unable to start.... (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) C:\> I have been trying to fix a friends system for about 6hrs. (no go) We were finally able to boot to a command prompt from the WinME CD and then run the DOS version of scandisk.exe It fixed about 7 corrupted files and one corrupted directory. (never got a message saying that it was unable to fix something that it found wrong) Still.... (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) (error ...."blah, blah, blah.....) C:\> So, whatever is wrong... cannot be fixed by the DOS version of scandisk. Maybe the Windows version could fix it. But since we can't get it booted to Windows... we can't run that version. One option remains: 1) install Win98 that came with his old machine 2) run the WinME "upgrade" CD that came with the new one. Apparently it originally had Win98 on the HDD and then was upgraded to WinME by GateWay. (no "from-scratch" WinME CD was supplied... only the upgrade CD) -- Glenn http://arachne.cz/ http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/ http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/ http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
