Thanks for confirming my suspicions about ME. However, if you grant that
Microsoft did NOT screw up, and simply, finally, removed Real Mode from Win
ME, then how do you explain that they put it right back in, with Win-XP?
This newer O/S that followed ME, does have a start up option to go to Command
Prompt, which ME no longer did. Perhaps it isn't DOS-6, but DOS-8, and maybe
it is even no longer Real Mode - don't know. But I wouldn't even mind booting
into ME's own version of DOS-7 at start up. Unfortunately, there is no way to
turn off ME and occasionally get into a full DOS mode.

I assume one of the three "variations" you mention, is using Partition
Magic's Boot Manager - which as I said, does not solve the problem, since it
simply starts up ME and leaves it upto that O/S to multiboot, which it can't.
Further, it may be that other so-called boot managers you mention, do the
same thing as PM - don't know. I did the Google thing several times, and it
wasn't "my firiend" as you suggest, since I spent hours on searching for the
"hack" you mention, with no more luck than the Knowledge Base here. Perhaps
you can point me to a specific site, or at least what search string you used
to find the hacks you mentioned, to get ME to boot DOS.

Thanks again.
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Thanks


"Mike M" wrote:

Microsoft didn't "screw up" to use your words but instead removed real
mode from Win Me. Long overdue and something that should have been done
when Win 98 was launched.

If you want to multiboot Win 9x systems (not just Win Me) you will need to
use a third party boot manager although there are methods by which Win Me
can be hacked so as to give the option to boot to DOS at bootup. Let
Google be your friend. There are at least three variations on this theme
in circulation.
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Mike Maltby