How to boot back to Windows from Caldera Dr-dos

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Help please!

the neighbor's kids have been toying with my computer, and now it only boot
up with Caldera dos. how can i get rid of it and boot back to windows?

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"Vanguard" wrote:

> "wang" <wang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:851DBAC4-DFD0-49B1-BB30-CEF41973C662@microsoft.com...
> > Help please!
> >
> > the neighbor's kids have been toying with my computer, and now it only
> > boot
> > up with Caldera dos. how can i get rid of it and boot back to windows?
> >
> >
>
>
> Remove the diskette from the floppy drive.
>

there is no diskette. I tried to reformat, but caldera has taken
over_everytime i power-up i get caldera dos
>

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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "wang" <wang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:851DBAC4-DFD0-49B1-BB30-CEF41973C662@microsoft.com...
> > Help please!
> >
> > the neighbor's kids have been toying with my computer, and now it only
> boot
> > up with Caldera dos. how can i get rid of it and boot back to windows?
>
> Try this for starters:
> - Get a large dog to guard your PC.
> - Boot the machine with your WinXP CD.
> - Boot it into the Recovery Console.
> - Run these commands:
> fixboot
> fixmbr
>
>
> caldera has completely taken over_it just bypass all drives hence the cd can not be read

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"wang" <wang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3F25DCAE-7F0E-49BF-93D3-0AC6E501375E@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "wang" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "wang" <wang@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > > news:851DBAC4-DFD0-49B1-BB30-CEF41973C662@microsoft.com...
> > > > Help please!
> > > >
> > > > the neighbor's kids have been toying with my computer, and now it
only
> > > boot
> > > > up with Caldera dos. how can i get rid of it and boot back to
windows?
> > >
> > > Try this for starters:
> > > - Get a large dog to guard your PC.
> > > - Boot the machine with your WinXP CD.
> > > - Boot it into the Recovery Console.
> > > - Run these commands:
> > > fixboot
> > > fixmbr
> > >
> > >
> > > caldera has completely taken over_it just bypass all drives hence the
cd can not be read
>
> out of panic mode_ somehow, it's back to normal without having to do
> anything except time; i let it sit for about 15 mins before i power
up___weird

Great!

For your information: Caldera, or any other OS for that, ***cannot***
take over everything. It cannot bypass the BIOS boot to CD, provided
that you remember to set your BIOS boot sequence accordingly.