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I have a laptop with Vista OS I want to know how to bypass the boot and get

to a command prompt. Vista will not boot and it freezes.


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Boot your laptop with the Vista DVD and choose repair.

Carlos



"katiewho" wrote:

I didn't get a dvd it's on my hd and I'm having trouble getting to it.



"Carlos" wrote:

katiewho,

The laptop should have a partition that would allow you some kind of restore.

Check your user manual or call the vendor.

Carlos



"katiewho" wrote:

Right after you hit the power on button, start tapping F8.

It should then give you a list of options that you can go into. (Safe Mode,

etc)



Use the UP and DOWN arrows to get where you want to go, hit ENTER



"katiewho" wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:22:04 -0800, katiewho

<katiewho@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote:







If you are looking to boot to MS-DOS, you can't. Windows Vista, like

Windows XP, Windows 2000 and other NT-based Windows versions before

it, is not built on MS-DOS and has no underlying DOS beneath it to

boot to.



The only way to boot to MS-DOS is by booting from a DOS diskette. And

if your drive is NTFS, the hard drive would then be inaccessible

(unless you also loaded special software like NTFSDOS).



You could try a repair installation from the Vista DVD.



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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

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Thanks Carlos, I know there is a partition I just didn't know how to get to

it. I'm going to try as soon as I get home. Thanks for the help!



"Carlos" wrote: