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is there any way to get a into Dos, without a xp disk or if F8 is not working. have repaired a few blue screens of death with xp disk using repair or fixboot, fixmbr or chkdsk. tried to fix a pc over the phone but friend had no xp disk and just got blue screen. would like to know if there is away around this. kind regards

tony

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  • What OS are you using?
    – The Green Frog
    Sep 1, 2009 at 8:27
  • windows xp service pack 3
    – tony gregan
    Sep 1, 2009 at 14:27

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See "Recovery console for those without an XP disk". Might help.

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From windows vista, you don't need use SHIFT+F10 to open Command prompt in Recovery installation media, you can click Repair your computer > Then you might need to login as a local user and you can choose Command Prompt.

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