Getting into MS dos from Windows XP w/o using boot disc?

[Blanchy]

Yeh im having trouble getting into the bios, and i have no winxp disc, and command prompt in winxp is no gd as i need to reformat my hard disk, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

[wayout44]

Re: Getting into MS dos from Windows XP w/o using boot disc?

Well you won't get into DOS from XP as XP doesn't support it (you will need a Win98 boot disk, http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm, Command Line in XP is not DOS) but to get into your BIOS requires a key to be held down during early stages of boot up (usually the Delete key but whatever key is required will be shown on the BIOS boot screen).

[RapNation]

Re: Getting into MS dos from Windows XP w/o using boot disc?

Not true ;)

Go to Run and type in cmd and the MS DOS screen will appear.

[Yawgm0th]

Re: Getting into MS dos from Windows XP w/o using boot disc?

and command prompt in winxp is no gd as i need to reformat my hard disk