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Lord DowneyBUM (UK) Fleet Admiral
Joined: January 13, 2003 Posts: 437 From: London England
| Posted: 2006-03-21 03:38  
Need a bit of an assist please.
Have a new comp, at the momoent only settup from DOS.
Have XP, and need to load it.
Question.
Will it auto run, or will i need to set up a DOS command, if so what is it.
Many thanks.
David.
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Deathscythe Admiral
Joined: November 30, 2002 Posts: 420 From: The netherlands
| Posted: 2006-03-21 05:15  
if im right xp dont need dos just toss the xp cd in the player and make sure your pc use the dvd/cd rom as a boot up and xp shud start up
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Drafell Grand Admiral Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003 Posts: 2449 From: United Kingdom
| Posted: 2006-03-21 06:31  
If you know how to access your Bios (usually press Delete or F1 as the PC boots) the is an option to change the boot order of your drives. It should be listed under Advanced Bios Settings
By setting the DVD/CD drive to be the first device, your PC will boot from that drive if there is a correctly formatted CD in it (IE Win XP cd)
[ This Message was edited by: Drafell on 2006-03-21 07:30 ]
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Lord DowneyBUM (UK) Fleet Admiral
Joined: January 13, 2003 Posts: 437 From: London England
| Posted: 2006-03-21 08:10  
Cheers guys, spot on.
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DOM700 [-IMO-] Fleet Admiral
Joined: July 26, 2001 Posts: 3175 From: Eckental, Germany, Sol-System
| Posted: 2006-03-21 10:32  
Note: Someone with working dos disks....guess my disks dont work anymore
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Borgie Chief Marshal Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005 Posts: 2256 From: close by
| Posted: 2006-03-21 11:45  
never liked dos.. i was used to mainly used macs
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Ants Chief Marshal
Joined: February 11, 2005 Posts: 315 From: Canada
| Posted: 2006-03-21 22:37  
If your computer boots to dos heres what you do
put the CD in to the rom
when the command prompt comes up type
D: `Enter` "D should be the cdrom drive
It shoud now say D:>
If and when it dose then type
setup `Enter`
`Enter` means hit enter
that should help
Now lets hope it is a dos win XP setup disk:p
[ This Message was edited by: Fatal Ants *XO 1* on 2006-03-21 23:49 ]
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