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Phil Martin <webcor@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> just run a DOS window) using WinME.  I have heard conflicting info on
> this and need to know ASAP.
> TIA
> --
> Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk

Try this link it might help
http://members.tripod.co.uk/bootdiskmaker/index.html
I am not using ME myself but found the link and thought i would hang on to
it, hope it helps.

In article <3A02E617.9D569B38@york.ac.uk>
           mrt102@york.ac.uk "Mark Tyndall" writes:

> > Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> > just run a DOS window) using WinME.
>
> Officially, no.
>
> Unofficially, you can use a W98 boot disc, or there are hacked versions of
> the WinME emergency boot disc which allow a normal real mode DOS.

Just a "straight" W98 boot disk?
W95 too?

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Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk

you need to use a boot disk from 98 or 95c no earlier because of fat32.. if
you use an earlier disk Fat16 you wont be able to access your hard disk..
any boot disk should do it.. no need for it to be one of them there
"startup" disks.

what do people here think about neptune?? with this many problems occuring
with people wanting dos in ME whats going to happen when its gone
completely!!! (or have MS whimped out again and included some form of dos?
anyone tried the beta??)

TTYL

"Phil Martin" <webcor@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <3A02E617.9D569B38@york.ac.uk>
>            mrt102@york.ac.uk "Mark Tyndall" writes:
>
> > > Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> > > just run a DOS window) using WinME.
> >
> > Officially, no.
> >
> > Unofficially, you can use a W98 boot disc, or there are hacked versions
of
> > the WinME emergency boot disc which allow a normal real mode DOS.
>
> Just a "straight" W98 boot disk?
> W95 too?
>
> --
> Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk
>

> Try this link it might help
> http://members.tripod.co.uk/bootdiskmaker/index.html
> I am not using ME myself but found the link and thought i would hang on to
> it, hope it helps.

Thanks, but the URL is not recognised by tripod.  Did find this:..

http://betaxtreme.hypermart.net/winmefiles.htm

..which has the patch previously mentioned.

Quite apart from the fact that I'm a bit of an old DOSser, I need the
command line to flash the firmware in a DVD-ROM drive to make it
region free/region selectable.  This procedure comes with dire
warnings, the only thing I've done like this is to fire upgrade
patches at my US Robotics modem, which continues to function but those
were official upgrades.

--
Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk

  "It is so cryptic as to be almost meaningless.  If there is a meaning,
                      it is doubtless objectionable."

its not possible as it is in 95/98,, but you can still use a boot disk to
boot dos and there is also a crack/patch out there somewhere on the net to
re-enable dos mode as we know it.. dont know where it is though..
hope that helps.
Stu@.

"Phil Martin" <webcor@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:973265845snz@webcor.demon.co.uk...
> Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> just run a DOS window) using WinME.  I have heard conflicting info on
> this and need to know ASAP.
> TIA
> --
> Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk
>

Phil Martin wrote:
> 
> Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> just run a DOS window) using WinME.  I have heard conflicting info on
> this and need to know ASAP.

Officially, no.

Unofficially, you can use a W98 boot disc, or there are hacked versions of
the WinME emergency boot disc which allow a normal real mode DOS.

Mark..
-- 
I'm a blood-sucking fiend!  Look at my outfit! -- Willow, BtVS

> FAT32 was actually introduced with OSR2, aka Win 95b.

oops!   8P
heh, well i was only a ickle kiddie when all that 95 stuff was happenin
(thank god),
cheers for the correction..
Stu@.

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 20:52:54 -0000, Stu@. <stu@thepink.worldonline.co.uk> wrote:
> you need to use a boot disk from 98 or 95c no earlier because of fat32..

FAT32 was actually introduced with OSR2, aka Win 95b.

-- 
Ian.

I don't have a sig either!

Phil Martin wants to boot a Win ME machine in DOS mode:

> I need the
> command line to flash the firmware in a DVD-ROM drive to make it
> region free/region selectable.  

I expect you can put the flash utility and binary files all on one 
bootable floppy. Then you can boot any version of MS-DOS and do your 
thing with no reference to the hard disc. 

If you want to maximise available conventional memory without using a
memory manager, and to minimise flopy disc space used by the 
operating sytem, try MS-DOS 2.11! (MS-DOS 1 is a bit limited.)

Best wishes,
-- 
Michael Salem

In article <20001105.0041.15859snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>, Michael Salem
<4ms2u$ms@michaels.demon.co.uk> writes
>Phil Martin wants to boot a Win ME machine in DOS mode:
>
>> I need the
>> command line to flash the firmware in a DVD-ROM drive to make it
>> region free/region selectable.  
>
>I expect you can put the flash utility and binary files all on one 
>bootable floppy. Then you can boot any version of MS-DOS and do your 
>thing with no reference to the hard disc. 
>
This is exactly what the instructions for the hacked firmware for my
Pioneer DVD drive suggested
-- 
Keith Laws

look here
http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/

and this works, i've tried it :)
HTH

Phil Martin wrote:
> 
> Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> just run a DOS window) using WinME.  I have heard conflicting info on
> this and need to know ASAP.
> TIA
> --
> Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk


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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 18:03:47 -0000, "John" <longjohn@jockstrap.co.uk>
wrote:

>
>Phil Martin <webcor@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:973265845snz@webcor.demon.co.uk...
>> Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
>> just run a DOS window) using WinME.  I have heard conflicting info on
>> this and need to know ASAP.
>> TIA
>> --
>> Phil Martin                               PGP Key: pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk
>
>Try this link it might help
>http://members.tripod.co.uk/bootdiskmaker/index.html
>I am not using ME myself but found the link and thought i would hang on to
>it, hope it helps.
>
Goto this site and download mfddme13.zip (8 kb) and follow
instructions at the site.

Note: I have not tried this as I have not elected to upgrade to WinME
as of now.

-- 
Sandy Archer
mrsandy@REMOVETHISflashmail.com
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In article <3A058F5D.EBC249FE@softhome.net>
           mikel@softhome.net "Michael Leadley" writes:

> look here
> http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
>
> and this works, i've tried it :)
> HTH

Thanks for that - I'd actually come across it via some other link, but
it's very comforting to know it's tried & tested :)

Thanks for all the replies.

--
Phil

or http://www.bootdisk.com/ :-)

Scott
"Michael Leadley" <mikel@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:3A058F5D.EBC249FE@softhome.net...
> look here
> http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
>
> and this works, i've tried it :)
> HTH
>
> Phil Martin wrote:
> >
> > Can someone please confirm if it is possible to boot into DOS (not
> > just run a DOS window) using WinME.  I have heard conflicting info on
> > this and need to know ASAP.
> > TIA
> > --
> > Phil Martin                               PGP Key:
pgp@webcor.demon.co.uk
>
>
> --
> -------- Michael Leadley (aka Mikel) -------
> -------- http://www.mikespage.co.uk --------
> --------------- ICQ 53357798 ---------------

On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 06:25:16 +0530, Ardent <iam@here.com> wrote:


>>
>Goto this site and download mfddme13.zip (8 kb) and follow
>instructions at the site.
>
>Note: I have not tried this as I have not elected to upgrade to WinME
>as of now.

Sorry I missed the url in my last post: 

http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/

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