[Gllug] OT - Booting XP to commandline

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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
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