In Windows XP to enter pure DOS by booting from the floppy disk with the boot floppy, but if the floppy drive is broken or no floppy drive, what should I do? Using the "emulated virtual floppy drive" software allows you to enter pure DOS without a floppy drive. MC software package software name: simulation virtual floppy software version: 1.20A software size: 1557KB software nature: free software application platform: Windows 2000/XP/2003 download address: http://long.mcpop.cn/vfloppy.exe Go directly to DOS
Double-click the downloaded file to install it. Note: This software must be installed in the root directory of the C drive of the NT kernel system (such as Win2000/XP). Restart after installation, select "Start VFLOPPU" in the Windows boot menu, press Enter; select "boot Vfloppy" in the GRUB window and press Enter, you will be prompted to enter the password, enter the default password "dudu" after "passWord" And press Enter to enter the multiple boot menu selection screen (Figure 1). Tip: If you want to change the password to other characters, please open the menu.1st file under C:\\boot\\grub with Notepad, and replace the characters after “passWord” in the fourth line, but please note that you cannot use Chinese. Otherwise it cannot be entered at startup. In the multi-menu, select "1 Start emulation virtual floppy drive" and press Enter to enter MS-dos 7.10 pure ring DOS; if you select "2 Start Windows into Wonderful Digital World", it will return to XP boot menu screen; in addition, here You can also choose to boot from the CD or run the included multi-function DOS disk image, or you can restart or shut down your computer. Second, the extended application example When you select "1" to enter the simulation virtual floppy drive, we found that nothing can be done except the use of DOS internal commands (because the default dudu.zip file does not include other extension tools). This is certainly not what we want. For example, if you want Ghost to back up Windows XP system installed on NTFS partition under pure DOS, what should I do? Since the DOS version of GHOST 8.0 recognizes the NTFS partition, it can be done by including the 8.0 version of the Ghost.EXE file in the DOS state after booting. Method 1: Improve on the original dudu.zip file 1. Decompress the dudu.zip file under C:\\boot with Winrar to get a win99.img file; 2. Use WinImage7.0 (download address: http://Www.winimage.com/winimage/winima70.exe) Open win99.img, click the "Image" /"Change Format" menu item, change it to 2.88MB, drag the DOS version of GHOST8.0 program file Ghost.exe To the Winimage window, save the file; Tip: Because the DOS version of Ghost8.0's main file has 1.32MB, plus the MSDOS7.1 system file, a 1.44MB floppy disk can not accommodate, so here must first Convert it to 2.88MB. 3. Compress the IMG file with GHOST.exe added to dudu.zip and save it under C:\\BOOT\\, overwriting the file with the same name. In this way, select "1" on the startup multi-menu to enter pure DOS, and you can run Ghost.exe. Method 2: Add the floppy disk image that can run Ghost on the multi-menu. After entering the password, enter the multi-menu. The multi-menu is actually controlled by the tools.1st file in the C:\\BOOT\\grub folder. Follow the steps below to enter the multi-menu. Add a floppy image that can run Ghost. 1. Make a Win98 floppy disk image of the bootable system containing the GHOST.exe file. You can download the floppy disk image file from the Internet and modify it with WinImage (the specific method is omitted), and then save it as Ghost.img as the file name in C:\\ BOOT\\. 2. Use Notepad to open the tools.1st file in the C:\\BOOT\\grub folder and add the following statement at the end: title 7 Start the Ghost floppy image map (hd0,0)/boot/Ghost.img (fd0) map - -hook chainloader (fd0)+1 rootnoverify (fd0) 3. Save the file and you will see this item in the multi-menu after entering the password. Select it to use Ghost under DOS. Friends who don't have a floppy drive, inspired by the above, you can definitely add more useful items to the multi-menu!