From DOS to Windows- How?

[bm]

A friend has found that on booting he now gets a DOS site
How can he change to windows? Is there a DOS command to do this?
I think it was after he used Partition Commander
Blair

 

[Shenan Stanley]

bm wrote:
> A friend has found that on booting he now gets a DOS site
> How can he change to windows? Is there a DOS command to do this?
> I think it was after he used Partition Commander

Sounds like your friend messed with something they did not understand and
changed it so they are now booting to a different partition than the one
Windows is installed upon (Windows XP is not DOS based.)

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[smlunatick]

On Jul 30, 9:43 pm, "bm" <Darr...@aol.com> wrote:
> A friend has found that on booting he now gets a DOS site
> How can he change to windows? Is there a DOS command to do this?
> I think it was after he used Partition Commander
> Blair

Partition Commander is probably the cause. It seems to have a option
to created a DOS 'partition' to install its own multi-boot menu
options.

 

[edfair]

Have your friend get into Partition Commander and set the windows
partition as the default.

 

[bm]

"edfair" <edfair.4ez2j6@no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> Have your friend get into Partition Commander and set the windows
> partition as the default.
>
Good idea. I will tell him
Thanks
Blair

 

[Don Phillipson]

"bm" <Darrach@aol.com> wrote in message
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> A friend has found that on booting he now gets a DOS site
> How can he change to windows? Is there a DOS command to do this?
> I think it was after he used Partition Commander

We assume he gets a DOS prompt (not "DOS site.")
He should try keying one word
exit
If Windows has been loaded, this DOS command exits
the DOS window to display parent Windows.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)