dual boot

prichprich Member Posts: 4 ■□□□□□□□□□
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I have a gateway laptop running window ME w/ 128 mb ram.
when i boot it up, it boots straight into DOS
How can i fix this.
the drive has not been reformatted or partitioned.all original os files are there under dos but i can't boot into WINDOWS ME
help!
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  • carbunklecarbunkle Member Posts: 97 ■■□□□□□□□□
    what I normally do is just pop in the install cd and wait about an hour any time I get an OS problem but you might look at the msdos.sys file I think thier is something like "bootgui=0" change that to 1 but I ahve no idea why that would be changed in the first place.
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  • bellboybellboy Member Posts: 1,017
    try adding a line containing the word win to yourt autoexec.bat file nd see what that does
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  • prichprich Member Posts: 4 ■□□□□□□□□□
    I booted up off a ME bootdisk. once at a:\ prompt i did a sys c: command.
    transferred successfully. now able to boot into ME.
    thank you for your help!
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