Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:58:08 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 03:07:00, Mike S. wrote:
>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...
Yes, that's what I do when I need to make an accurate measure of the speed of
Chess Tiger.
> but I must be cautious; this system has only one of these recovery
>CD's, no complete Windows CD.
Brrr :(
>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?
I noticed the same thing. You cannot get rid of this XMS driver anymore
apparently. It seems to be built in IO.SYS now.
You could still use a DOS 6 floppy.
Christophe
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