stupid ? but I need to know help

[babyhuey]

well for several reasons I need to boot to dos and I can not seem to get there and have access to my c drive and the othere two harddrives. no I do not have an floppy and everytime I use a cd boot disk I can not seem to find any other drives then the ram drive and the cd drive. I am running win xp emachine edition and I can not seem to acrss the harddrive when booting from the windows cd eather. any ideas

[juppy]

When you boot from the CD using the WinXP disk, have you tried the Recovery Console option that it gives (or does the eMachine edition not give that option)? If it does, that should give you a command prompt on the main drive. I don't know about whether it gives access to additional drives (because I've only got the one hard drive that I've ever tried it on ), but it does give access to the main C: drive.

[glc]

The hard drive access with the recovery console is quite limited. About your best bet is something like a BartPE CD which will boot into a self-contained slimmed down version of XP, you will have command prompt access to all your hard drives.

[babyhuey]

Originally Posted by juppy When you boot from the CD using the WinXP disk, have you tried the Recovery Console option that it gives (or does the eMachine edition not give that option)? If it does, that should give you a command prompt on the main drive. I don't know about whether it gives access to additional drives (because I've only got the one hard drive that I've ever tried it on ), but it does give access to the main C: drive.

emachine does not give me that option that allows me access to the HD, I will start on the PE builder today thanks