Windows XP can also start pure DOS

  
After installing Windows XP/2000 or higher, if you want to boot to pure DOS mode, you can only use floppy disk, U disk, CD, etc. I did not expect the author to find a tool that can modify the Windows 2000/XP boot menu on the Internet. With it, you can choose to enter the pure DOS mode at startup. Good Dongdong did not dare to use it alone, and shared it.

Download: http://gd.pcdog.com/down/argzs2.exe


How to use

After installation, if you have If you are interested, you can check the Boot.ini (the default location is c:\\) file in the system. Has been changed to the following:

[boot loader]

timeout=6

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2 )\\Windows

[Operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

C:\\Windows\\arboot\\dos\\ar.BIN="dwarf studio pure DOS mode"

C:\\Windows\\arboot\\di\\DOS.BIN="dwarf studio Backup recovery "

What is the effect of this change?

Startup generates a startup menu, and adds two items based on the original startup menu:

One is "dwarf studio pure DOS mode"

The second is "dwarf studio backup and recovery"

of course, the default boot option is the original Windows XP or Windows 2000, etc. the default wait time is 6 seconds. In other words, if you do not make any choices when the boot menu appears, the computer will automatically boot to Windows XP or Windows 2000 after 6 seconds. If you want to boot to pure DOS mode, you can use the cursor movement keys on the keyboard to select the previous one. The two new ones.

1. "Dwarf Studio Pure DOS Mode"

After selecting this, the next level option menu will appear. There are 5 options:

1MINI starts, minimizes startup. Can be partition management, such as formatting, etc., speed is very fast.

② load optical drive MINI start.

③ start loading the cache, support for CD-ROM.

④ start loading the cache, support for the mouse, can view the contents of NTFS partition.

⑤ above, plus Chinese support, as well as Chinese and Chinese input method program under pure DOS.

Regardless of the selection, authors have carefully selected commonly used DOS commands are available, including partition management, hard disk repair. If you select the last item, you can also start the CCDOS and pure DOS Chinese program:

Press Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F3, Ctrl+F4, Ctrl+F6 to switch various Chinese input methods, English Input.

Press Ctrl+F5 and select Digital Health 1 to completely exit CCDOS and Chinese program. After exiting, enter the command hh to reload.

Press Ctrl+~ to switch between full-screen Chinese, intelligent Chinese, and non-Chinese.

Do not underestimate this small program, finished effect is very good, with exactly the same as the Orient Express. According to the author's observation, it calls the DOS Chineseization module of the Orient Express 2000. How can the effect not be used by the author?

2. "Dwarf studio backup and recovery"

it is used in Chinese PQDI 4.0 version, but also easy to use than the famous Ghost, is a pure "fool" type tool. PQDI's wizard mode lets you see it at a glance. More importantly, the software author can modify the page files and hibernation files of Windows XP and Windows 2000 before you back up. The two files also have a minimum of 500M. The specific size is related to your physical memory size. For 2.5 times the physical memory, the backups you make are fast and small.

Note: If you choose two options mentioned in this article when you start your letter of the partition will be some changes, mainly in the following areas:

A disk is An image file with many useful DOS commands.

hard disk partition arrangement rule is: For example, if you have a hard drive has FAT32 partition NTFS partition, the top surface of the partition is FAT32, C are arranged starting from the back. Then there is the virtual disk simulated by the memory (the function is similar to the Windows 98 boot floppy disk, mainly used to store useful related commands), CD-ROM drive. The last is the NTFS format partition. I think, only friends who know some DOS commands will be interested in this software. Try to input the drive letter and jump to each partition and then Dir understands everything.

3. Tips

estimates of software in order to take care of friends are not familiar with DOS, backup tools using PQDI 4.0 Chinese version, because the version limit, its support for NTFS partition is not very satisfactory, mainly in not write NTFS partition. In other words, only the system partition (which can be NTFS) can be backed up to the FAT32 partition. The prerequisite for using it is that you have a FAT32 partition in addition to the system disk in your computer. Otherwise, the backup will not succeed, but this will affect the normal use of "dwarf studio pure DOS mode".

In fact, many of my friends computers have only NTFS partitions, and how to overcome this limitation it?

After the software is installed, it will generate a file named DOS.img in C:\\Windows\\arboot\\di (arboot has hidden attributes) directory, which is essentially a floppy image file, running PQDI All the required files are in it, just replace it with a higher version of PQDI.

① with UltraISO Open C: \\ Windows \\ arboot \\ DOS.img files under di, the entire hard disk to either extract a new directory.

② advance to the next file after extraction folder, delete the file name is the Lord of all the files PQDI (there are five).

3 Copy the files under PQDI 5.0.

PQDI 5.0 (English version) Download:

http://www.31390.com/teacher/down_courseware.JSP?TC_id=9204&&prevIEw=0< Br>

4Using UltraISO to make the replaced file into an IMG file, the file name must be DOS.img, and then replace the original file under C:\\Windows\\arboot\\di with it.
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