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Subject: [ct-user] Windows ME - no DOS support
From: Ed Parish, K1EP" <k1ep@arrl.net (Ed Parish, K1EP)
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:09:54 -0400
At 12:10 AM 8/9/2000 -0300, laity@brunnet.net wrote:

>If you make a bootdisk prior to installing Win ME shouldn't that 
>work?  Will you be able to see your hard drive?  It seems a simple 
>solution, maybe to simple.

As long as they don't change the file system, which was done in the past going 
from DOS/WIN3 to WIN95/NT/98.  Then you would be stuck with just what was on 
your floppy.


>Rick
>
>
>> 
>> For those of you who might be thinking of upgrading to Windows ME
>> (Millennium Edition, the successor to Windows 98), be forewarned that
>> this version of Windows does NOT contain native DOS support in any
>> form.  Therefore it will be impossible to shut down your computer to a
>> DOS prompt to run CT.
>> 
>> Here is a note that may be of interest:
>> 
>>  http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/07/30/078252.shtml
>> 
>> 73 - Jim AD1C
>> 
>> 
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>
>Rick Laity VE1GN
>laity@brunnet.net
>
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