All I’m trying to do is change directories at the CL in Win8.1 64-bit, but it’s completely ignoring me for some reason. It’s a long time since I’ve used it in any meaningful way, but I don’t remember it being this hard before.
All I’m trying to do is change directories from C:\ to D:, but it’s having none of it
C:\>cd d:\
Gives me
C:\>
and so does
C:\>chdir d:\
Yet I can navigate up and down the C:\ file tree all day long. What am I doing wrong?
I cut my computer teeth on DOS 3.31 (still have the IBM PC XT, believe it or not) and made the same mistake in my beginning days. The only dumb question is the one that goes un-asked.
This isn’t a DOS question. The command line in Windows NT / 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 is an OS/2 command line and not a DOS one.
The last versions of DOS were windows 88 and Windows ME. There hasn’t been a Microsoft version of DOS released since then and I think by then all the competing DOS versions had given up as well.