[Gllug] OT - Booting XP to commandline

[tid]

Yeah, F8. Wish I'd been a fly on the wall at redmond during *that* meeting.

"Okay, people. Should it be F8, F1, or Alt-shift-metacokebottle whilst
holding down the
tilde key? Choices, please."

tid.

On 21/07/07, bradut <bradut at bradut.com> wrote:
>
> F8
>
> On 21/07/07, Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Sorry for the Windows question but ...
> >
> > I'm doing some maintenance to a friend's Win-XP-Pro machine, and need to
> > boot
> > to a DOS interface if possible. I remember being ablr to use a function
> > key
> > at boot time, but for the life of me cannot figure out how to do it
> > right
> > now.
> >
> > Any hints? Basically, I need to copy the Documents and Settings from the
> > C
> > drive to a newly installed data drive to recover disk space and since
> > Windows
> > acesses several of the relevant files it will not let me copy them ...
> > Using
> > a Linux boot CD is not an option since all drives are formatted NTFS
> > unfortunately.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Dylan
> > --
> > "The blizard was alone on Earth and knew no equal."
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