you can download a dos boot disk from bootdisk.com.

 

I dont have a floppy drive. I only have DVD drive and HDD.

Isnt there a way to boot vista into DOS by pressing some F key combo?

 

you can try a win98 bootdisk. It was the last to have a version of dos. or you can use the ultimate boot cd.

 

Doesnt look like ultimate boot cd allows a person to boot into DOS.

Any other ideas?

 

Doesn't Eraser have an option to securely delete the contents of the swapfile upon restart?
I believe it works like chkdsk, in that it accomplishes the task while the machine is booting into Windows.
I haven't tried it on Vista yet, but it works on W2K.
...at least, Eraser 5.6 did.

 

If I may ask... whay do you want to "wipe' the swap file?

Why not just turn Virtual Memory to... OFF?

This would get rid of the page file... assuming your system has enough RAM to support the programs that fire at boot-up. What about "trimming" such programs via HJT ... or even SysInternals Autoruns?

Just a thought here... may be I am missing something obvious.

Regards. . .

jcgriff2

 

Google DOS Boot Disk ISO file. ISO is a CD image file, so it will make a cd a dos start-up disk.

 

Hi again Truthseeker,

May be I just missed all here... but looking back at your opening statement a question now comes to mind...

Do you want to simply boot into DOS and nothing else? What do you mean by "boot Vista.."? Are you speaking of the x86 or x64 hardware?

I guess that I am just not clear on the original issue at this time. Apologies.

Thanks...

jcgriff2 (JC)

 

I wanted to boot into DOS to do a proper file wipe of the Vista swap file called "pagefile.sys".

Eraser comes with a proper pagefile.sys program, but it needs to be run from pure DOS.

 

Hi. . .

By a "file wipe" do you mean to delete it?

JC