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Yes, there are USB drivers for DOS... | |
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| Time: 16:57 EST/21:57 GMT | News Source: the inquirer | Posted By: Scott Cederbaum | ||
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HAVING AN EXTERNAL USB cd-writer or hard disk works wonders as long as your operating system is in good shape. But if someday the system stops booting, you are lost. Booting from good old MS-DOS or Windows boot diskettes - even fitted with the needed third party NTFSDOS or EXTFS drivers - gives you access to your fixed hard disk only, but none of the USB peripherals can be accessed from the DOS command line. Before you start scratching your head, let me repeat that this is not related to your favorite linux distro's or Windows XP/W2K/98/ME's USB support, this has to do with people like me, booting some flavor of DOS to copy files around or using DOS-based partition back-up software. | ||
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| #1 By 20 (67.9.179.51) at 6/28/2003 1:40:05 PM |
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That brings up an interesting point. I wonder if MS could make a super light-weight cmd-line OS like DOS, but with basic PnP support, NTFS support, some security, etc, etc. This OS would serve as a troubleshooting and emergency repair OS. They're kinda half-way there with the Recovery Console.
Interesting thought :) |
| #2 By 135 (208.50.204.91) at 6/29/2003 1:56:16 PM |
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Windows PE is becoming the basis for a lot of third party products. Backup products, recovery products, etc. will use it to boot up and run their software.
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| #3 By 135 (208.50.204.91) at 6/29/2003 6:43:26 PM |
| cba-3.14 - Boy it's a good thing Windows has improved upon the ideas of Unix. |
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