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From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Boot of A:, switch to C:?
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Date: 2 Dec 90 20:24:14 GMT
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ron@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ron Winograd) writes:

> Is there anyway to "switch control" over to the C:
> drive, without having to use fdisk to switch active paritions again and
> rebooting?

The programs you mention overwrite the transient portion of command.com,
and so it needs to reload after they complete. There are 2 ways to take
care of this...

1) simply assign COMSPEC to C:\WHAT\EVER\COMMAND.COM (altered, of
course, to reflect where COMMAND.COM is on your C: drive). This is
easily done in the autoexec.bat file.

2) use a SHELL=C:\WHAT\EVER\COMMAND.COM statement in the config.sys.
This is also a good place to put modifications, like expanding the
environment.

Either way, you don't need to fdisk to accomplish this.
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