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    Boot to dos prompt in VMWare?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by diggy, Dec 17, 2009.

  1. diggy

    diggy Notebook Deity

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    I've got a user who's Windows XP has a corrupted .dll file that I need to replace, but I cant get Fusion to boot to a dos prompt. Anyone know how?
     
    diggy, Dec 17, 2009
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  2. Vogelbung

    Vogelbung I R Judgemental

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    Windows won't boot into a DOS prompt natively in any case. If you mean the Safe Mode Command Prompt, you can hold down Cmd-F8 as you're booting the VM from a shutdown state.
     
    Vogelbung, Dec 19, 2009
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    Cmd-F5 also works.
     
    surfasb, Dec 19, 2009
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    If it's a system .dll, you can just do start->run sfc /scannow and that should repair it. It sounds like that might be the case since you're trying to bypass the gui..
     
    BrandonSi, Dec 19, 2009
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  5. diggy

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    I'll give that a try; I've tried the other suggested ways, and either I'm too stupid in my drunk state right now, or it just dont wanna work for some reason.
     
    diggy, Dec 19, 2009
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