dos help

[laurieandmike]

hi there just wanted to say hi first
ok i have windows 98se on my puter i need true dos to run my superscribe program
how do i do this it will run errors in the dos window that is on windows 98se
if i creat a dos bootdisk i can only get a drive and cant access c drive where the program is
please help
mike

[WhatsThisBoxFor?]

Try start, shutdown, restart in MSDos mode.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by laurieandmike if i creat a dos bootdisk i can only get a drive and cant access c drive where the program is

Are you typing in "c:\" (without the quotes) and hitting Enter to get over to the c: drive? If you're doing this, what error message are you getting?

Cricket

[galaxian]

I'm on XP, but if you run MSCONFIG, Advanced Tab (I think), you should find an option to Select/Unselect GUI.
UNselect this, and it should boot straight to DOS.
Entering WIN will start Windows.

[laurieandmike]

i tried this
here is what i done so far
i got a dos boot disk from bootdisk.com
put it in computer and started it up it started dos in A:\
i tried going to C:\ but it says invalid drive
tried it like c:|
D:\
E:\ etc but all same result
i am on windows 98se
if i start windows and go restart in dos its ok but i need true dos without using windows
mike warford

[Cricket]

Have you tried just typing c: and hitting Enter?

Cricket

[laurieandmike]

yes i tried all that
it shows
A:\
then i go
A:\C: it says invalid directory or dir dont exist
if i take the boot disk out and restart windows start up great
and if i go restart in dos it works but i need to do it with a dos boot disk in order for it to work

[Cricket]

Is Superscribe a big program or will it fit on a floppy disk? If it's small, maybe you can run it from the floppy.

I'm puzzled as to why you can't change drives in DOS. How did you make that boot disk?

Cricket

[laurieandmike]

the exe file fits on floppy but need bigeer drive to run
i went to www.bootdisk.com and downloaded one of there dos bootdisks
please help
thanks
mike

[Cricket]

Are you using a home built computer or a store bought name brand one?

Have you tried running the program from a floppy?

Cricket

[laurieandmike]

its a ibm
i will try running from disk now

[galaxian]

At the A:\ prompt, what exactly are you typing?

Just

C:

followed by the Enter key should get you to C:

[Mesaeus]

Originally Posted by laurieandmike i went to www.bootdisk.com and downloaded one of there dos bootdisks

Yes, but for which DOS ? If you get one for DOS 6.22 for example, you can't access FAT32 partitions because that DOS version doesn't know about them. You need a DOS 7.0 bootdisk (AKA the Windows 98 bootdisk). Try
this one. If you ARE using a Windows 98 or later bootdisk, you can ignore my ramblings but I suspect you got one of the DOS ones. The Windows 98/Me bootdisks are in fact just DOS bootdisks, your program should run fine with them.

[glc]

Restarting the computer in MS-Dos mode *is* true DOS - why won't that work?

[galaxian]

A shutdown > restart in DOS is not quite real DOS, only because there is still a small piece of Windows code that is still active. Otherwise an EXIT would not return you to Windows.