Tip: Windows XP's pure DOS dream _windowsxp

In Windows XP to enter pure DOS to boot from the floppy drive with a boot floppy, but what if the floppy drive is broken or there is no floppy drive? Using the "Emulation virtual floppy drive" software allows you to enter pure DOS without the floppy drive.

　　 MC Package 　　

Software Name: Simulation Virtual Floppy drive

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

　　 first, directly into the DOS

Double-click the downloaded file for installation, note: This software must be installed in the NT kernel system (such as WIN2000/XP) in the C-packing directory. Reboot after installation, select "Start Vfloppu" in the Windows Startup menu, enter, select "Boot Vfloppy" in the Grub window and enter, prompt for password, enter default password "Dudu" after "password" and return, The Multiple Boot menu selection screen will be entered (Figure 1).

Tip: If you want to modify the password for other characters, please open the C: \boot\grub under the menu.1st file, the fourth line in the "password" after the characters are replaced, but note can not be used in Chinese, or at startup can not be entered.

Select "1 start emulation virtual floppy drive" in the multiple menu and enter into MS-DOS 7.10 pure ring DOS; If you choose "2 start Windows into the wonderful digital world", you will return to the XP boot menu screen; In addition, you can also choose to boot or run the included multifunction DOS disk image from the CD , you can also reboot or shut down the computer.

　　 second, extended application examples

When "1" was selected to enter the virtual floppy drive, we found that nothing could be done in addition to using DOS internal commands (because the default Dudu.zip file does not come with other extension tools). This is certainly not what we want. What if, for example, you want to make ghost to back up Windows XP installed on NTFS partitions in pure DOS?

Since the DOS version of Ghost 8.0 recognizes NTFS partitions, it is possible to include the 8.0 version of GHOST.EXE files in the Boot DOS state.

Method One: Improve on the original Dudu.zip file

1. The Dudu.zip file under C:\boot is extracted with WinRAR to obtain a win99.img file;

2. With 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, the DOS version of the GHOST8.0 program file GHOST.exe dragged to the WinImage window, save the file;

Tip: Because the DOS version of the GHOST8.0 main file has 1.32MB, plus MSDOS7.1 system files, a 1.44MB floppy disk can not accommodate, so here to first convert it to 2.88MB.

3. The GHOST.exe img file will be compressed into dudu.zip and saved under C:\BOOT\, overwriting the same file. In this way, in the start of the multiple menu select "1" will be able to enter the pure DOS, and can run Ghost.exe.

　　 method Two: Add a floppy image to run Ghost on multiple menus 　　

Multiple menus entered after entering a password are actually controlled by the tools.1st file in the C:\BOOT\grub folder, and you can add a floppy image that runs Ghost in multiple menus by following these steps.

1. Create a bootable system with GHOST.exe file Win98 floppy image, you can download the floppy image file from the Internet and WinImage modified (the specific method), and then ghost.img to the file name in C:\BOOT\.

2. Open the tools.1st file in the C:\BOOT\grub folder with Notepad and add the following statement at the end:

Title 7 Boot Ghost Floppy Mirror

Map (hd0,0)/boot/ghost.img (fd0)

Map--hook

Chainloader (fd0) +1

Rootnoverify (FD0)

3. Save the file, you will see this item in multiple menus after entering the password, select it to use Ghost in DOS.

Without the floppy drive friends, in the above inspired, you will be able to add more practical items in multiple menus!