Dos programs and Win2000 Pro...

[Romulus]

I have some programs that were written for Dos and I would like to use them, but I am running Windows2000 Pro. When I try to open up some of these programs, the black box will open up and then it will just say 'All files in directory will be deleted! Are you sure? Yes/No...'
Is this normal with Windows 2000 Pro because it does not have Dos and I'm trying to run these programs out of the Command Prompt?
And if so, is there a way to run any of these programs in the Win2000 enviroment?

[x_goose_x]

What kind of DOS programs? .bat files? Win2k by default doesn't support choice, so if you're using choice in a .bat file, it won't work. Also DOS progs that directly try to access the system won't work in 2k.

[Romulus]

well I was trying to run an .exe. This was an old game that I dug out of a hole and wanted to see again. But the only way I could think of making the game work was to put another OS on the box and dual boot. However, I have Win2000 on here now and I've heard that installing an earlier OS after a later one can cause problems. Leaving me with the option of installing XP. However, this doesn't have the real dos either I don't think.
No, I was just hoping there was an emulator or something that would let me play these games on Win2000 without a 'serious' amount of copying/installing...

[dreamingdigital]

why don't you just download/borrow/rummage through the basement for DOS 6.2. Make a bootable floppy and pretend you're so 6 years ago. The only thing diferent will be the lightning speed your game will go!

[Romulus]

I wasn't sure that would work because I was reading some posts on a DOS forum and they seemed to all think that DOS programs were a total write off. I was just hoping that someone else would have another theory.
Thanks for the tip.

Snowing in Nova Scotia by the way....how the weather in Saskat.?:)

[dreamingdigital]

The weather in Saskatoon is friggin -35C!!! I haven't been outside for more than 2min in 3 days!


Yeah, just put your DOS .exe on your hard drive. Then shut down and boot from a DOS floppy. (it fits on a floppy!) then type:
c:
cd path\to\game
game.exe

should work. :)

[sage45]

Unless your formatted your Windows 2000 with NTFS it should work... You can also choose to run a program in DOS mode... :)

-sage-

[Roy Sinclair]

I started with NT during the NT 3.1 beta testing and during the years have run a number of DOS programs under NT and it's descendants (Windows 2000 and Windows XP). I've never seen a "Delete all files" prompt and since you seem to be getting that with every DOS program you try I suspect you've got a directive in your autoexec.bat or config.sys files which is causing this. Most likely a directive to empty the TEMP files directory.

Clean up those files and you may find you are in business.

[Romulus]

that's exactly what it was. I had no idea that that bit of code added to the autoexec file would cause that. It didn't cause a problem when I was doing it with ME.
Thank you very much....I was prepared to just move on and scrap the idea of running some of those programs...

thanks again.