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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Anatomy of DOS Post 302599645 by methyl on Friday 17th of February 2012 05:19:08 PM

02-17-2012

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On the Google front, it's spelt "MS-DOS".
MS-DOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There is extensive to the point of exhaustive documentation available from Microsoft.
Just use Google Advanced Search and the term "MS-DOS" confined to the domain "microsoft.com".
One hit is this overview of the MS-DOS Command Prompt in Windows XP:
Microsoft Corporation

After you break out to the Command Prompt with Start/Run/cmd, just type "help" to get a list of available commands. You can then get further help with "commandname /?" or "help commandname".

Hope this will get you started.

Ps: If you want to see everything which is on the C:\ partition from the MS-DOS Command Prompt in Windows XP:

Code:

dir c:\ /s /p

On a mature Windows XP system there will be over 100,000 files.
Enjoy.

Pps. Finding all the disc partitions (where there is more than one) is easier with the standard Windows "My Computer" link to "Windows Explorer".

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TESTDISK(8)						       Administration Tools						       TESTDISK(8)

NAME

       testdisk - Scan and repair disk partitions

SYNOPSIS

       testdisk [/log] [/debug] [/dump] [device|image.dd|image.e01]

       testdisk /version

       testdisk /list [/log]

DESCRIPTION

	  TestDisk checks and recovers lost partitions
	  It works with :
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	  - BSD disklabel (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD)
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	  - HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
	  - JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
	  - Linux ext2/ext3/ext4
	  - Linux Raid
	    RAID 1: mirroring
	    RAID 4: striped array with parity device
	    RAID 5: striped array with distributed parity information
	    RAID 6: striped array with distributed dual redundancy information
	  - Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
	  - LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
	  - Mac partition map
	  - Novell Storage Services NSS
	  - NTFS (Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/...)
	  - ReiserFS 3.5, 3.6 and 4
	  - Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
	  - Unix File System UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
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	  It can undelete files from
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OPTIONS

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SEE ALSO

       fdisk(8), photorec(8).

AUTHOR

       TestDisk 6.13, Data Recovery Utility, November 2011
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