Booting in ms dos prompt

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My pc recently died after i installed a game (black and white) and was
told to uninstall a windows hotfix (264141 i think or something like
that) after uninstalling the hotfix i was told to reboot my pc, when i
rebooted the pc it loaded the restarted itself before loading the login
screen.

I've now started my pc with a boot disk but i cant get out of a: drive.
My pc can't see any of the other drives only whats on the disk.

I can fix my pc by re-installing windows from a recovery disk but that
means formating my drive. If i can get into c: drive via dos i might be
able to run a system restore to before i installed the game.

Anyone got any ideas?


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XP is not based on MS-DOS, and using the default file system for NT OS's of
NTFS, of course, your MS-DOS boot floppy will not see NTFS drives (at least
without 3rd party intervention - systernals has a free reader, but the
reader/writer cost money). The proper procedure is to boot from the XP CD
and choose to go into the "recovery console", but since you most likely have
a slimmed down, cheap recovery CD instead of the full OEM install CD, then
you won't have this either - so as they say, you are stuck, unless you have
a friend you can take your drive out and put in as a slave drive in his/her
PC, you can at least save your important files - other than that, you'll
have to bite the bullet, format and reinstall - starting all over. If you
had at least done some type of critical file backup of important files, they
may be older, but not completely lost.

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"Haven" <Haven.1lyl1p@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
news:Haven.1lyl1p@pcbanter.net...
>
> My pc recently died after i installed a game (black and white) and was
> told to uninstall a windows hotfix (264141 i think or something like
> that) after uninstalling the hotfix i was told to reboot my pc, when i
> rebooted the pc it loaded the restarted itself before loading the login
> screen.
>
> I've now started my pc with a boot disk but i cant get out of a: drive.
> My pc can't see any of the other drives only whats on the disk.
>
> I can fix my pc by re-installing windows from a recovery disk but that
> means formating my drive. If i can get into c: drive via dos i might be
> able to run a system restore to before i installed the game.
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
>
> --
> Haven

 

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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q310/9/94.ASP
The floppies include the recovery console.
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"Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)@(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:e8aNZ2bKFHA.3788@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> XP is not based on MS-DOS, and using the default file system for NT OS's of
> NTFS, of course, your MS-DOS boot floppy will not see NTFS drives (at least
> without 3rd party intervention - systernals has a free reader, but the
> reader/writer cost money). The proper procedure is to boot from the XP CD
> and choose to go into the "recovery console", but since you most likely have
> a slimmed down, cheap recovery CD instead of the full OEM install CD, then
> you won't have this either - so as they say, you are stuck, unless you have
> a friend you can take your drive out and put in as a slave drive in his/her
> PC, you can at least save your important files - other than that, you'll
> have to bite the bullet, format and reinstall - starting all over. If you
> had at least done some type of critical file backup of important files, they
> may be older, but not completely lost.
>
> --
> Star Fleet Admiral Q @ your service!
> "Google is your Friend!"
> www.google.com
>
> ***********************************************
>
> "Haven" <Haven.1lyl1p@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
> news:Haven.1lyl1p@pcbanter.net...
>>
>> My pc recently died after i installed a game (black and white) and was
>> told to uninstall a windows hotfix (264141 i think or something like
>> that) after uninstalling the hotfix i was told to reboot my pc, when i
>> rebooted the pc it loaded the restarted itself before loading the login
>> screen.
>>
>> I've now started my pc with a boot disk but i cant get out of a: drive.
>> My pc can't see any of the other drives only whats on the disk.
>>
>> I can fix my pc by re-installing windows from a recovery disk but that
>> means formating my drive. If i can get into c: drive via dos i might be
>> able to run a system restore to before i installed the game.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Haven
>
>