Author: Mike S.
Date: 00:07:00 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 01:17:50, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 25, 2001 at 00:51:04, Pete Galati wrote: > >>(...) it claims that one of >>the things it automatically does is give you the ability to boot into Dos >>without having to cheat your way in with a system floppy. But I've been >>procrastinating and haven't bought it yet. >> >>Pete > >Until WinME it was very easy to boot in Dos. So I guess the product is designed >to restore this useful feature to Windows ME? > > Christophe There were freeware solutions published for that, but they do all kinds of changes as it seems, to sensible system files like command.com, io.sys etc. IIRC, and/or change the windows configration in conjunction with several mysterious winboot.bat, winstart.bat files or something like that... I use none of them. Windows Me still "allows" to make a bootable floppy, the system start disk. I reconfigured such a disk for my purposes, which has the advantage of avoiding any change to a windows or system file on harddisk. It's not very comfortable though... but I must be cautious; this system has only one of these recovery CD's, no complete Windows CD. One problem of the floppy method is: If you want to suppress the loading of a XMS memory driver, this doesn't seem to be possible anymore (?). I don't know if custom DOS-boot methods allow this. Some older chess programs like Fritz 3, Hiarcs 3 (but also 7.01 I think) cannot allocate their large hash tables, when himem.sys or another XMS driver is loaded. Does somebody know more about that? Regards, M.Scheidl
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