Let Windows XP and 2003 also boot from DOS

In the Internet era where viruses are rampant, in the school room where the "explorer" operates, system maintainers often inevitably boot the computer to DOS, kill the virus, fix the fault, or use Ghost to clone or recover.

For Windows 98, you can directly press F8 to enter DOS at startup, and for Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003), can you boot directly from hard disk to DOS without using a floppy disk or CD? Below, let's quickly create a dual system of its own, so that Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) can boot directly from the hard disk to DOS.

Method One: a new installation

if your Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) system is not installed, and the system is not intended to be installed on an NTFS partition, then install Windows Before the 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) system, format the system as a boot disk with a DOS boot file using "Format/s C:" (assuming it is installed on the C partition). After the formatting is completed, install Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) system, and keep the existing DOS operating system during installation. When your Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) system is successfully installed, your Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) + DOS dual system is also a success.

Method 2: Add DOS

Perhaps, your Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) system has already been installed; perhaps, you do not want your Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) system is installed in the FAT32 partition... Then you can use a small software vFloppy - to achieve Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) + DOS dual system.

It is a green software. After decompressing, run vFloppy.exe to open the program, as shown in the main interface (Figure 1). Click the "Select path to image file" button, then select BOOTDISK.img or NTFS.img, click the [Apply] button to complete the Windows 2000 (Windows XP or Windows 2003) + DOS dual system.



Figure 1

As unmount the virtual boot floppy disk (in fact unloading alone, because itself has not been installed), only the root directory of the system partition The next Boot.ini file is opened (as shown in Figure 2), and the corresponding startup item in the boot menu (for example: C:BOOTBOOTDISK.bin="started by virtual boot floppy disk" is deleted, or "timeout=30" "Change to "timeout=0".



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