Boot to MSDOS from ME

[downtown]

Ok....so my windowsME computer is b0rked. I've given up trying to fix it, so I figure its time for me to format the bloody thing and start over.
However...ME doesnt want to boot to MSDOS so I can do it...I hold down f8 during startup...nothing. ctl....nothing. what else can I do? can I format without booting to dos?
thanks

 

[Grisu]

I don't really know ME, but you should be able to format the drive in the setup process. Just start from your ME-CD and you should get an option to format the disk.

 

[downtown]

just gave that a shot...I cant format from the CD. i THINK I can reinstall windows over my old version, but that might not solve all my problems. id prefer an all out format. thanks tho

 

[raen]

With the CD you cant format probably, but probably you can erase/create partitions, or not?

Just erase the partition, and create it again.

 

[downtown]

I guess not. I had forgotten however, that if I use a boot disk, the computer books to msdos, so I can format.
problem solved. thanks folks

 

[funxus]

I can't remember which, but IIRC there was one version of Windows that didn't allow boot-disks booting to DOS. Was that 2000?

 

[Padma]

I believe that was NT.

At least, I remember when I was stationed in Italy that we bought NT systems because they were "secure" that way.

 

[Turner]

Yeah, and people were jumping for joy when XP 'brought back' this feature. It was such a pain finding a Win98 machine to make a boot disk....

 

[ainwood]

Problem is that its not actually 'true' MSDOS -> you can't use it to play DOS games for example.

 

[Turner]

That's why there's DosBox....