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Microsoft => Microsoft DOS => Topic started by: whistler49 on January 09, 2010, 02:30:21 PM
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Using the formatting function of Windows XP Professional, I created an MS_DOS bootable floppy disk, and I have used the floppy disk to boot up my XP machine directly into DOS. Now, however, I can't get standard DOS commands to work (CD, EDIT, HELP). Instead I get a "Bad command or file bame" error message. The only command that seems to work is DIR. Does anyone know what I can do to get the DOS commands to work? Thanks.
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That's because XP is not built on a DOS kernel - XP doesn't understand DOS at boot. What is it you want to do?
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What are you expecting to be able to do? An MS-DOS bootable floppy does not (and cannot) contain the whole set of MS-DOS commands.
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Thanks, Allen. I'm trying to update the firmware of a PCI card. The instructions say it can't be done in Windows and that I must boot up in DOS.
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You need to place the firmware flash program on the floppy.
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Great suggestion. I'll give it a try and let you know what happens.
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I did as you suggested and copied the flash utility file (jm36xupd.exe) and its associated bin file (10679.bin) to the floppy boot disk. I then rebooted into DOS and ran the flash utility from the floppy. In accordance with the instructions of the pci card manufacturer, I used the following command line: jm36xupd.exe /w 10679.bin. Unfortunately, I got the "Bad command or file name" error message again. Any ideas?
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I double-checked and discovered that I had made a careless copying error. I am trying again. Thanks for your patience.
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It worked! You may be fishy, Salmon Trout, but you're a genius. Thanks.
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:rofl:
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:rofl:
Whistler49, Dias de Verano and Salmon Trout are the same person.
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Whistler49, Dias de Verano and Salmon Trout are the same person.
You seriously need to get the *censored* off of the crack pipe.
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Whistler49, Dias de Verano and Salmon Trout are the same person.
What, all three of them are me? Are you sure?
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What, all three of them are me? Are you sure?
Sorry Salmon, I couldn't hear you over the cacophony of voices in my head. Can you repeat that?
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I cannot work out if he is saying
"Whistler49, I am telling you that Dias de V. and S. Trout are the same person", which is actually true (but what of it?)
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"Whister49 and Dias de V. and S.Trout, all three, are the same person", which is not true (in fact it's crazy)
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The OP is definetely claiming that you are using more than one profile.
Thus the crack pipe comment.
I don't know you well, but I know you well enough to know that you wouldn't demean yourself like that in a thread.
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The OP is definetely claiming that you are using more than one profile.
Thus the crack pipe comment.
I don't know you well, but I know you well enough to know that you wouldn't demean yourself like that in a thread.
Hmmm. I have been thinking about my reply just now; I think it would have been more accurate for me to state that I once was called "Dias de Verano" on here, then I went away, eventually I came back some months later and chose the name "Salmon Trout" (A British steam locomotive of the 1920s) but I have never had more than 1 account active at any one time. I cannot see the point of it; to use them both in the same thread would be like talking to yourself compared to a genuine conversation, or like *censored* compared to, er... (Well you get my drift) Only a crazy person would do such a thing. I believe I have made myself as clear as is necessary?
On the other hand it could be fun...
[newboid1999] How can I get a list of all folders that start with the letter A?
[Salmon Trout] Why, newboid, just put this in your batch file! dir /s /ad B*
[newboid1999] Gee, thanks, Salmon! It works like a dream!
[Salmon Trout] Think nothing of it old fellow.
[newboid1999] Salmon, you're a genius!
[Salmon Trout] Calm down! People will get suspicious.
[newboid1999] Oh. Er, right.
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... Only a crazy person would do such a thing....
On that note, maybe you would.
*ducks*
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On that note, maybe you would.
*ducks*
What physicist was it who told a student, "Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true" ?
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What physicist was it who told a student, "Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true" ?
That would be Niels Bohr.
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Ah, the ambiguity. Can one be sure of anything?