Hi,
I recently upgraded to a dell optiplex gx150 (No reason for mentioning that) with xp, HOWEVER when I want to use dos, it doesnt have a "reset in ms-dos mode" and none of the boot disks I have downloaded work. They all do not recognise c: as a drive, just a:.
Can anyone tell me where I can download a boot disc that actually works in xp, or give me some kind of key combo on startup or something that will let me boot in dos? dos SHELLS dont work for the kind of thing I do. Accursed windows keep gobbling up all the resources.
Thanks
Sounds like you have NTFS or FAT32 drives that DOS can't recognize.

If FAT32 get a Win98 boot disk - www.bootdisk.com
If NTFS check out this site: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDos.html

If I may ask, what are you doing that requires DOS and can't be run in Windows?

Hope this helps. Sidewinder
I use dos a lot for dos games, and to write small BBC BASIC files using a free BBC BASIC programme, I have LOADS of these files and to NAVIGATE them I use OPENGEM (y'know, the gui-os/file manager) to run them.
Half the games don't work in XP shell and OPENGEM itself doesnt work in windows full stop.
Hope that answers your QUESTION!OLD games>>http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/information.php?page=0

not sure if you are looking for something like this?>http://www.sharewareplaza.com/EDXOR-download_19152.htmlThanks for the dosbox link, its great! i'll look at the other one as well,
problem solved, Thanks!