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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5641)	1/28/1999 7:27:00 AM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP To see a DOS name right click on a folder or filename in Windows Explorer Right..... I remembered seeing DOS names there, without realizing I would be needing them so soon, after Spots outlined using DOS commands & file names. In the root directory of your Win98 drive there should be a file called autoexec.bat and another called config.sys. If they do not exist you can make them. I saw these as I was working my way thru my diectories in MS DOS. I always knew they were important, but not why or what. DOS indicated they were empty ( 0 bytes). Is this possible? believe you are in a DOS environment when you shutdown and restart in MS DOS mode. There is some Win95/98 hangover as when you type EXIT when in MS DOS mode the system will reboot to WIN95/98. Yes ..thats the way I've been getting into/out of MS DOS..... but now for some reason EXIT is not getting me out when typed after C:\>....... there always seems to be another fork in the road leading me farther away from getting a backup NT and some partitions done:-( believe Drive Image execution from Win 98 is the equivalent (or near equivalent ) of a shut down and restart in MS DOS mode. The execution is not native Win95/98..it is merely accessible from Win95/98. The message I get when executing Drive Image from Win95 is to close all programs as I am leaving Win95 and entering DOS (or something to that effect). Yep.... thats my experience also, although by your verbalization here its clearer to me. Funny how stateing something in words makes it more of a reality..... DI does take a long time to loadup to the point of my blackened message though So, for Spots also, if your reading this, the good news is... I used the command info you gave me and was able to execute DI from MS DOS. The bad news is DI behaved the same way with the blackened message box and the escape key trick. So that would, and please correct me if I'm wrong, indicate that DOS memory is not the cause of this particular occurance. This was Spots best guess from the beginning. Then while still in MS DOS I put in the MAtrox CD to view those DOS utilities there and see if I could install them onto C: without the OUT of DOS MeMory message. Another fork ing the road...... DOS tells me D: ( my cd drive letter when running w98/ms dos) is an Invalid drive specification. Now this I don't understand why I can't access the D: from C: under MS DOS... Clarence.... stepping one step forward two steps back...

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5641)	1/28/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>>I believe you are in a DOS environment when you shutdown and restart in MS DOS mode. There is some Win95/98 hangover as when you type EXIT when in MS DOS mode the system will reboot to WIN95/98. This is probably some type of TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) application. Partly right. To boot, Win95/98 first boots DOS (just like the old days of 3.0/3.1/3.11) and DOS runs Win95 on exit. If you reboot to the dos prompt, you just get a dos command prompt because the booting DOS executes COMMAND.COM on the way. When you exit from COMMAND.COM (that's what EXIT does), You continue the boot you interrupted. Autoexec.dos and config.dos are for booting the previous version, not the Win 95/98 version. If you choose boot previous version of ms dos from the 95/98 startup menu (F8), Win 95 replaces autoexec.bat and config.sys with autoexec.dos and config.dos, the boots the previous dos. When you next boot 95/98, it's puts everything back.