Ok, I am sure this question has been asked before but I am new to both this forum and to radio programming. I have a laptop with windows xp pro and no DOS program. Can I download Dos on this computer and be able to program my radios or do I need an old PC with another windows.
Ihave the most recent version of RSS ( so motorola told me so ). They are as follows:
RVN4176S CD for MTS2000
RVN4097V floppy( dos ) for MT2000
Can someone please settle this once and for all????
Windows XP Pro for programming
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constable105
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motorola_otaku
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Luckily for you, MTSX software is very tolerant of newer, faster computers. However, you'll need to be able to boot the computer into pure DOS. The easiest way to do this is with a USB flash drive, and the instructions for doing so are located here.
If you're feeling brave enough to re-install the entire operating system, you can configure it to dual-boot into DOS or XP off the hard drive. Search this forum.. the instructions for doing so are located a few pages back.
If you're feeling brave enough to re-install the entire operating system, you can configure it to dual-boot into DOS or XP off the hard drive. Search this forum.. the instructions for doing so are located a few pages back.
If the laptop has either a cd-rom or floppy drive than there is no need to reformat and install a dual boot. Just make a stripped down bootable floppy, there is even images of such on bootdisk.com that don't load any drivers, etc.
Boot up with the media of choice than put in the RSS you need to run. If the XP formatted the hard drive as NTFS then your not going to be able to access it from DOS. You could however copy the RSS and Boot files to one CD-ROM and boot from that, i've done that before and it's easier than trying to boot from USB devices, a lot of older computers won't boot from USB anyway.
Another way to do is get Partition Magic, make a small partition after the XP partition and then use that for your DOS location. Partition magic installs a boot manager that gives you a screen to select which operating system you want to run. The first time you select the DOS partition have the first install disk in the drive and run through the install as normal. Then you can boot either partition as needed later on. This is nice because you can use hard drive space for saving stuff, and if you go into the PQBoot options you can set the DOS partition as unhidden from XP, which will allow you to copy and paste to it from windows since XP can read the FAT32 partition.
Boot up with the media of choice than put in the RSS you need to run. If the XP formatted the hard drive as NTFS then your not going to be able to access it from DOS. You could however copy the RSS and Boot files to one CD-ROM and boot from that, i've done that before and it's easier than trying to boot from USB devices, a lot of older computers won't boot from USB anyway.
Another way to do is get Partition Magic, make a small partition after the XP partition and then use that for your DOS location. Partition magic installs a boot manager that gives you a screen to select which operating system you want to run. The first time you select the DOS partition have the first install disk in the drive and run through the install as normal. Then you can boot either partition as needed later on. This is nice because you can use hard drive space for saving stuff, and if you go into the PQBoot options you can set the DOS partition as unhidden from XP, which will allow you to copy and paste to it from windows since XP can read the FAT32 partition.
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If you have RSS version RVN4176S CD for MTS2000, you can run it from XP Pro, I do with a Dell 1.7 Ghz laptop, it works great.
If you must use DOS, goto http://www.bootdisk.com and create a DOS 6.22 boot disk with NTFS drivers so you can read/write to your XP file system from DOS.
--Orlando
If you must use DOS, goto http://www.bootdisk.com and create a DOS 6.22 boot disk with NTFS drivers so you can read/write to your XP file system from DOS.
--Orlando
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