Do I need to create an MS-DOS Startup Disk? If so, why?
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an ms start up disk is always good to have in case your computer goes "caput".  it will let you in the back door, so to speak.
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as you load more and more stuff onto your pc, there is more and more stuff that windows has to search through to find the files it needs to start up.\n\nI would consider getting an application which can defrag your startup files and place them at the start of the drive.\n\nThere could be a corrupted driver that ste startup struggles to process which could slow the whole thing down. Defrag the drive and see if it starts up any faster. the Defrager built into windows XP does an aokay job but i might want to consider something better like O & O DEFRAG.\n\nhttp://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/pro/\n\nor Iolo's system mechanic 6 also has a whole host of features to fixup some problems\nhttp://www.iolo.com/sm/index.cfm\n\nUnfortunatly, i know of know free, better defraging alternatives to MS Defrag.\n\nOn a lighter note you might want to see what's starting up and in what order.\nhttp://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/LoadOrder.html\n\nIf you know how you should disable some of the unnesasary stuff that runs during startup. Goto START > RUN and type in MSconfig. Click on the STARTUP tab, and uncheck the items that you think/know are not neccasary for starting up.\n\nI hope that helps.
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Did you create a primary dos partition? boot from the cd with cd support. when you get to the A:/ type in  fdisk  hit enter. follow the prompts with yes answers until you get to the menu screen. there will be a choice for creating the primary dos partition. Use 100% of hard drive space. when it is done, reboot back to the cd. you should now be able to format and start installing win98......good luck
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To create a set of Setup boot disks for Windows 2000, run the Makeboot.exe tool from the Bootdisk folder on the Windows 2000 CD-ROM: 1. Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive. \n2. Click Start, and then click Run. \n3. In the Open box, type drive:&#92;bootdisk&#92;makeboot a:, where drive is the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and then press ENTER.
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make a boot disk, and you will need the install CD... the go to the command prompt and type format c:
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If you can run the cd from a dos prompt, go to the winnt directory and run setup from there.  Good luck
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Back up anything/everything thats important or stuff you wish to keep such as emails from applications like Outlook Express etc on either a dvd-R rom or a CD-r rom, from your hard disks this can be C:&#92; D:&#92; etc however if you have only one harddisk you should double check you have everything you dont want to lose backed up. \n\nwhen your done backing up(burning files to disc or copying them to external HD) restart the system insert Windows XP CD\nboot from it. To boot from the windows XP cd go to bios (at start up of your computer press delete) and go to the Boot Up section in the bios and set the CDROM drive as first to Boot. save&exit choose Yes, the system should than restart and prompt you if you wish to boot from the CDrom.\n\nOnce you in the windows XP setup interface, after laoding a few neccessery files it will ask you where you wish to install windows, choose to format or delete a drive. Warning this will completely remove that partition(where your older windows including files located on that HD, but we backed the files we wish to keep so you should be fine). \nOnce you have chosen for it to delete the partition you may need to create a New partition in order to continue the setup of windows XP. Thus create a new partition and choose to have windows installed on it there.\n\nWhen windows XP setup copies all files and restarts your system. go to bios again, and set the boot up Not cdrom first but your HD. otherwise it will keep promting if you wish to boot from cd (we passed that fase so you dont need to boot from cd anymore, unless).\nSave the changes you made in the bios (booting from HD) and the system will restart from there IT should be smoooth sailing. \n\n- OR -\n\na simpler way, you can just backup your files(burning them)\nwhen your done you delete them ALL, including mails from applications such as Outlook Express, or received files from MSN and other download applications. \n\nand your done, however this method always leave traces of maybe things you wish not to share with the person your selling your system to. \n\nIf all this sound too complicated, i suggest you find someone who knows about computers to help you back up your stuff and reinstall everything fresh and new for the person your selling the system to. \n\n\nGood luck!
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by dos \nboot from a bootable disk\nif you have a ntfs partition you must have the ntfsDos program to do waht you need;\nremember the path and boot your computer from dos and then go to the path of that file and then delete it;\n...
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Take care that undelete programs made for DOS a few years ago won't work with Win XP or NTFS partitions... So if you're thinking of undeleting on a new computer, your chances are slim without a professional tool :-(
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Restart using a Win98 Startup Disk and try to locate the file or just Re-install Windows
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For my PC HDD for the very first time i did it by booting my pc with a windows 98 boot cd. From the boot option i chose boot with cd-rom support. Then in the command prompt i typed fdisk. When it ran i chose to create primary partition first and then i chose no to use part of my HDD and gave a size like 25%. When it was done i chose extended DOS partition to create other three logical DOS drives. For the extended DOS partition i chose to use the rest of my HDD for it. When done it asked me to create logical drives in it. I gave 33% for the 1st and 2nd one and the rest for the last one. when done i exited the fdisk program and rebooted the system and started installing windows 98.\n\nNow the above option is for the first time if u have no other PC. If u have one more HDD with operating system in it or another PC then u can attach ur new HDD to that PC and partition it with third party softwares like PQ Partition Magic.\n\nIf u want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP in that HDD just boot ur PC with ur Windows 2000 or Windows XP bootable CD and do partitions in it when prompted. It is very easy. It will show u what to do in detail on ur screen.\n\nPlay Safe...
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If it is mack computers using the dos command will be a good idea, but if it is from dell, hp or other brand you will need the installation cd that comes with the computer, all you need to do is insert the software cd and re-run it.
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you can not create this, because it is reserved for some I/O operation in DOS environment
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No, just download a bootloader, and you can choose whether to load linux or windows on startup, but they both exist together on the same hard drive
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if you are using windows 98-you can create it  by just going to control panel -add/remove programs- windows setup - make a bootable disk .and insert a floppy( any blank or used one, but floppy should work) and click start after 20% is completed it starts your floppy to convert it as bootable floppy.\nthats it..u also now have a bootable floppy\nbye\ngopi
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normally if you want to make ur PC more faster than to got run type msconfig and select start up. un check everything ( don't worry it doesn't make any difference to not run files in start up) bcoz windows file normally starts. there is no windows core file in start up. it might stop all your software to get start @ windows start up. \n\ni hope it might boost ur system performance @ start up\n\nplease let me know if you have any further question.
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If you are running any version of Windows from 98 on, then your computer does not have MS-DOS. It only has a command line interface that emulates DOS.