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Hi, Kay.
>I have to scan my disk to remove a worm.
Then I think you are asking the wrong question. You need to ask how to
remove the worm. My experience with worms and such is (thankfully!) quite
limited, but I doubt very much that you need to boot into MS-DOS to deal
with it.
If you mention the name of the malware, there's an excellent chance that
someone here (not me!) will recognize it and be able to give you some
specific advice for how to deal with it. Many MVPs and other readers here
keep very busy removing various kinds of bad guys for friends and customers
on a daily basis.
So, don't ask how to boot into DOS. Ask how to remove your specific worm.
You might want to start a new thread with a more appropriate Subject line.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
"Kay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:69c401c4831c$f087efa0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>I have to scan my disk to remove a worm. I am trying to
> get into safe mode on my laptop but its not going into
> safemode. Are laptops different to get into safemode?
> Then I was going to run a dos scan program. I did this
> once before on my desktop and it removed all sorts of
> unwanted worms. I have a worm on my laptop and Mcafee
> won't work.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Hi, Kay.
>>
>>Why?
>>
>>This question has been asked several times here in the
> past couple of days
>>and I have to wonder why! :^{
>>
>>Why do you want (or need?) to boot into DOS mode in
> WinXP? What are you
>>trying to do?
>>
>>You CANNOT boot into MS-DOS mode in WinXP!!!!
>>
>>You can boot into Safe Mode with Command Prompt. From
> WinXP, you can click
>>Command Prompt to enter a "DOS" window, which looks like
> MS-DOS but is
>>really an emulation that runs within WinXP.
>>
>>You can use WinXP to create an MS-DOS startup diskette,
> but it will not be
>>able to read NTFS volumes (without a third-party
> utility), so you can't do
>>much with it - except maybe flash an update into your
> BIOS.
>>
>>If you tell us what you hope to accomplish, we can
> probably help. But if
>>you want to "boot up in dos mode on my xp", the answer
> is: you can't.
>>
>>RC
>>
>>"Kay" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
>>news:66f501c48317$ddd22600$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> How do I boot up in dos mode on my xp? thanks