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OK I know there are some guys that could help me out here so Please help me! I'm trying to set up a laptop for a friend but I'm having some problems.
I've formatted it and installed DOS, and Windows. Whenever the laptop turns on it goes to DOS. I want it to load straight to Windows without me having to type in the DOS command every time. I think I have to set a path or something like that. The problem is though that in DOS the key doesn't work. Do I have to reformat? And can someone please tell me how to make the laptop load Windows on startup instead of DOS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've formatted it and installed DOS, and Windows. Whenever the laptop turns on it goes to DOS. I want it to load straight to Windows without me having to type in the DOS command every time. I think I have to set a path or something like that. The problem is though that in DOS the key doesn't work. Do I have to reformat? And can someone please tell me how to make the laptop load Windows on startup instead of DOS?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What spec notebook is it mate, can it take more than win 3.1?
Colin
Colin
No probs Mess, good luck :)
Thanks Jive, that sounds EXACTLY what I'm after. I'll have a go at your method once I'm back at my friends house where the laptop is, if this doesn't work I'll give you a holler. But thanks all the same, you don't know how much you've saved my life!
Mess, once you've installed DOS 6 and Win3.1 you boot upto a c:> prompt hopefully. At this point the DOS install is reading a batch file called AUTOEXEC.BAT and this should be in the root of C:
At the C:> prompt type EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT and you'll see a blue text editor screen appear, contained in this is the instruction for boot up that DOS carries out.
At the very bottom after all the instructions you need to put on a line all by itself
WIN
You might have to put
C:\WIN
Have a play around, try the first on it's own, reboot the computer and see if Win3.1 starts automatically. If not try the second. I haven't had to edit that kind of batch file for something like 8 years so it's sort of fallen out of my brain.
If this still doesn't work post back up here. :)
At the C:> prompt type EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT and you'll see a blue text editor screen appear, contained in this is the instruction for boot up that DOS carries out.
At the very bottom after all the instructions you need to put on a line all by itself
WIN
You might have to put
C:\WIN
Have a play around, try the first on it's own, reboot the computer and see if Win3.1 starts automatically. If not try the second. I haven't had to edit that kind of batch file for something like 8 years so it's sort of fallen out of my brain.
If this still doesn't work post back up here. :)
Get into windows and update it. If u wanna keep that op system and want it to automatically load...post again and i will give instructions...phi11ip completely misunderstood.
type win at the command prompt
Yeah sorry should have mentioned before that it's DOS 6 and Windows 3.1. Can someone give me pretty detailed instructions because I've never done anything like this before.
Any help would be Greatly appreciated.
Any help would be Greatly appreciated.
Don't you just edit the autoexec.bat file on the partition and put win at the end or the bottom as this will then start either Win3.1 or Win9x at bootup?
Ahhhh, those were the days...
Get into DOS and type win to load windows!
cd/theme
theme
LOADING THEME PARK
Yay!
Get into DOS and type win to load windows!
cd/theme
theme
LOADING THEME PARK
Yay!
What version of Windows, 3.1?!?
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