On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:43:34PM -0800, Preeti Ranjan Panda wrote: > > Please excuse my elementary questions... > > I couldn't find a way to "restart in MS-DOS mode" from the WinXP machine,
This may be because XP is NT/W2k warmed over, and it does not have a
DOS mode.
> so I used a DOS boot disk and followed the instructions for creating
> the tomsrtbt disk. Creation of the tomsrtbt floppy went fine, but
> when I tried to restart the machine with this floppy in the drive, it was
> just ignored and WinXP booted instead! What went wrong?
Try going to your BIOS (reboot and enter the BIOS early in the reboot
process, usually with the DEL key) & verifying that the first boot
device is the floppy drive. The vendor may have turned that off for
security.
Mucking around with your BIOS is a very good way to shoot yourself in
the foot, so make sure that's the only thing you change, if anything.
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