Remove Windows Me real mode DOS limitation
2 April 2001 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback OffWindows Me blocks access to real mode DOS, which for some can be a limitation they cannot live with.
These utilities makes it possible to patch the boot files to allow booting into real mode DOS:
These utilities makes it possible to patch the boot files to allow booting into real mode DOS:
- Reines - Real DOS-Mode Patch for Windows Millennium
- DosFix (Little more automated)
Updated: 6 February 2007
Comment by MS - 21 November 2010 @ 15:13 Reply
REAL DOS 8.00 capable of starting from HDD *without* any modifications to its files (io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com) is placed on Windows Me OEM
CD inside X:\tools\nettools\fac\ltools.dta file, which is CAB file
with changed extension, that can be extracted by any CAB extractor,
including Windows extract.exe. X is CD drive letter. These three files are
slightly different than other instances of themselves in Windows Me, but they
works good as supplementary REAL DOS to Windows Me and they can boot to DOS from separate primary HDD partition. This REAL DOS works *as is* without any patches, etc…