Re: New DOS shell for Windows coming

On 6/29/2005 17:26, willbill wrote:

> then too, there's XP Pro, XP Home, and oem XP;
> each with their own set of problems!

Not really. XP home is just a subset of XP Pro.

> the other factor is how do you fix XP (NTFS
> file system) if Windows won't start in safe mode?

You should investigate "Bart PE boot CD" for working on failed systems
with NTFS partitions. DOS based OS's(Win98) on boot disks have no hope of
reading NTFS. Also see sysinternals.com and may want to check out the
acronis utils.

~Jason

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