I will not give up on my AutoCAD 11, (it costs too much!) I can run it in my DOS but how do I turn off my Windows? And then, how do I turn my Windows back on? Maybe I should just get some old computer that does not use Windows? The only thing that I have to do is turn off Windows Virtual something, and I have tried all the advice to no avail. Ms. Persistent : :giddy:

Which Windows version do you have?
DOS is only available under W98, W98 and W98SE.
All others require a boot-partition with DOS (this is the C-drive only!) and dual-booting to some Windows on another partition.

I have Windows XP. I did do a floppy boot disk, but what I need to do is turn of my virtual something. When I had AutoCAD on my old computer I had to configure my memory, but this is different. Thanks

If you have a FAT32 partition on your PC, you can install that Autocad11 on there.
To get to proper DOS on your PC, you need to start from a W98SE bootdisk. Get it from www.bootdisk.com
You will need to make modifications to CONFIG.SYS on that floppy (using Notepad).
Remove any lines that say:
device=himem.sys /testmem:off
or
dos=high,umb and replace any occurrence of devicehigh= with device=

When you boot from that floppy, select the With CD support option.
When you get the prompt A:> type in the driveletter of that FAT32 partition, like X: end hit Enter.
You'll know the rest how to work under DOS.
To restart Windows, Exit your Autocad, take the floppy out and press the Reset button.

I'll give it a shot when I get back. Thanks, it sounds like it might do the trick.

I know it's been awhile since you last posted to this thread, but microsoft now has something out called virtual machine. You can install a full emulated dos version on your xp machine and run autocad, or anything else from there. I am doing the same thing now, except lost my autocad release 12 boot floopy. Any questions email me at epsolon77@yahoo.com