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[Ernesto Celis <celise AT prodigy.net.mx>]

> > just i have a problem runing the .bat file using
> > the windows explorer, it tells me something about
> > drive a: bloked
>
> Do I understand correctly:  when you click on
> make_fd.bat with the mouse, it doesn't work?
>

When i click on make_fd.bat with the mouse it begin to run
the batch process, but windows send a warning about the
floppy drive, sorry i don´t remember exactly the message,
and give's me three options [continue] [cancel] [ommit], if
i choose continue, the routine seems to be doing all the
proces needed to make the floppies, but when i try to boot
the PC with the resulting floppies the PC displays "Remove
all media and press a key to continue". I try this a couple
of times using other floppys, new floppies (maybe the first
pair was damaged) and all was the same history, the warning
message and floppies unable to boot.

> > it works?  BTW, how do you get to the command-line
> > in Windows XP?
> >
> Through the gui :)  I think you have to go to start >
> programs > accessories and then "c: prompt" - something
> like that.  I'll try and double check tonight since the
> guy downstairs here has XP on his system now.
> >

Yes, thank you James, maybe it could be hard for me to
explain this since my XP it's in spanish language, and if
you noticed my english is very bad (i understand very good
the english and i can translate from english to spanish, but
i have problemes speaking or writing english)


> > Are you saying that it doesn't work when you reboot
> > in command-line mode?
> >
> There's really no command line mode in XP. It's more like
> a dos box. There's no option in the start menu for
> "restart in DOS mode" like in older Win versions: the OS
> confronts you with only gui from the very beginning of the
> boot process.  What are they hiding under that gui,
> anyways?
> James

Right, XP boots using a GUI and you can't choose "restar in
DOS mode" from the start menu like in Windows 9x, microsoft
says about windows Me, 2000 and now XP, the MSDOS it's no
used anymore to boot these OS (i don't think this is really
true, maybe that's what they hide under GUI), but before
Windows Me, 2000 or XP start to boot, just after the BIOS
memory selftest, you can press F8 and get in a text menu
with some boot options
1) Boot windows in normal mode (read GUI)
2) Boot Windows in safety mode
3) Boot Windows in safety mode with network support
4) Boot in DOS mode
when i say not rebooting in command line mode to run make_fd
i'll be tryng to say isn't necesary reboot the PC, you must
be able to use make_fd rebooting in DOS mode, but i thought
reboot it's unnecesary.

Steven I apologize if it's hard to understand me, i try to
be the most detailed what i can.

Ernesto

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