windows 2000 DOS

[skylight]

Dear All,

How can I get into DOS before windows 2000 starts.

Thanks for any help

Regards

 

[skylight]

Perhaps I should be a bit clearer. I want to use an old hard drive as a back up drive. The old drive has W2000 on it.
As far as I can see I have to fdisk and format to make this drive empty to clone the "working disk" on it.
My question is how should i do this.

Thank

 

[BlaBli]

u should use a bood disk to start your computer.
u can use win98 boot disket... but make sure that the drive is not formated as ntfs for win98 boot disk does not recognize ntfs partitions

 

[skylight]

That is one of my problems BlaBli, it is formatted in NTFS

Thanks

 

[BlaBli]

then u can use partition magic to convert the ntfs to fat32
or u can use win xp boot disk

GL

 

[skylight]

Thanks BlaBli, that will do it