computer question...

[someguyincanada]

I have been working on this problem for a while and cannot seem to solve it. One of my friends gave me Chuck Yeager's Air Combat to keep, my problem is I can't use it in a dos window and what im asking for is does anyone know how to make a disk so it will come up as C: instead of A:. I have been at this for a few days and thought I would throw it out. My computer is winxp home ed

 

[Roy Harding]

As I understand your question, you want your computer to believe your floppy disk drive is a hard drive??

If this is the case, then forget having it appear as C: - your operating system is there, and your computer won't recognize two drives with the same letter.

You can type the following line in a DOS window, which will cause the computer to read your floppy drive as D: drive (replace D: with any other letter higher than C: which isn't already in use):

SUBST D: A:

I'm not sure this will fix your situation, though.

 

[someguyincanada]

what im looking at doing is having a dos prompt as soon as I start the system only using a floppy disk

 

[Scratch_043]

if you are using an older version of Windows, you can opt to 'restart in MSDOS' from the shutdown menu

Also, sometimes, and I mean 'sometimes' you can enter the bios, and tell your computer to start in MSDOS

 

[someguyincanada]

Torn
Winxp doesnt have that option, and the bios doesnt have that feature :'(

 

[JBP]

what im looking at doing is having a dos prompt as soon as I start the system only using a floppy disk

In otherwords, you need actual DOS capability...

Here are a couple basic solutions:

1.) Make a BOOT disk, through WindowsXP
2.) Manually make a BOOT disk by copying certain files like COMMAND.COM, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, MSDEX.EXE etc etc.... PS> Certain files aren't avail on Win XP, need someone with older system
3.) EASIEST option>>>> Find someone with a copy of Windows 98 install CD, pop it in, it'll give you the option to boot up computer with CD-ROM support and dump you into an actual DOS prompt, the remove the Win 98 CD, put your game CD in and give'r hell...

Joe

 

[someguyincanada]

what other files would i include?

COMMAND.COM, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, MSDEX.EXE etc etc....

 

[someguyincanada]

I found my answer to almost all my dos gaming needs

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=DOSBoxWiki