In Windows, press F8 during booting.. You will find a menu in which you will fine an option - "Safe Mode in DOS Prompt".. Enter in that menu, you will boot from DOS Prompt.. In Windows 98, you will find the "Boot from DOS prompt".. You can select that option to boot from DOS..
If you have a DOS boot disk you can boot from that. In Windows you can make the CD drive bootable or install DOS on a bootable thumb drive, etc.
No. Windows Vista is not based on DOS and a DOS boot disk will be unable to read the file system that Vista is on.
What does the term mean prompt in dos
click start, programs, and MS-Dos prompt when you boot from a bootable disk or a windows 9x Me startup disk, you get a command prompt instead of the windows desktop
DOS is an operating system. The DOS prompt is the command line where DOS commands can be run/executed.
DOS Prompt
no
You know what you have to type in. (prompt tells you what to do.)
Windows XP does not have 'proper' dos, but it does have a command prompt which is a lot like dos. You can access a DOS-like command prompt before booting Windows XP by first restarting your computer and before the Windows XP loading screen appears, repeatedly hit the 'F8' key on your keyboard. This will give you boot up options. One of them will be 'Safe Mode with Command Prompt'. This is the same command prompt that would appear if you hit [Windows]+[R] key in Windows and typed 'cmd' and then hit enter.
PROMPT command is an internal command, which is used to change the MS-DOS prompt. Through, the system displays the prompt bu default, when you start the computer.
you have to use the command prompt(also called the DOS prompt by older users. You can find this by going to "start" , "programs" , "accessories" and "command prompt"
Its not possible from DOS Prompt..
what i have done with my computer (hp pavilion) is when the screen comes up either HP, COMPAQ, or whatever logo the computers brand is, hit f1 and go into the system prompt or settings, and you should be able to have a selection where you can select a boot device. DOS is one of those selections