booting to command line with NT

[talkingbob]

Hi all,

I was told that on Windows NT 4.0 workstation that you could bootup and reach a command prompt (like DOS) instead of the GUI. Is this true? And if it is, how might someone accomplish this?

Thanks,

Kaleb

 

[djhawthorn]

No, you can't.

NT is based on its own kernel, and not on the old DOS engine. The closest thing you'll get is either with an MS-DOS boot disk, or with 'cmd' - NTs command prompt. MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[tsklein1]

There is third party software that you could use to boot to a command prompt in NT. "NTFS Pro" or something like that.

T

 

[wolluf]

as dhawthorn says, you CAN'T boot to a command prompt in NT.

sysinternals/winternals do have some software which will allow you to read ntfs filestore from a win9x boot floppy (freeware) or read/write ntfs filestore from same (costs).

If you happen to have a 2k or XP install CD lying around, you can actually use its recovery console with an NT installation. That is something like a command prompt.