Editing FreeDOS (section)

=== Windows NT and ReactOS ===
[[Windows NT]]-based operating systems, including [[Windows 2000]], [[Windows XP|XP]], [[Windows Vista|Vista]], [[Windows 7|7]], [[Windows 8|8]], [[Windows 8.1|8.1]], [[Windows 10|10]] and [[Windows 11|11]] for desktops, and [[Windows Server 2003]], [[Windows Server 2008|2008]] and [[Windows Server 2008 R2|2008 R2]] for servers, do not make use of MS-DOS as a core component of the system. These systems can make use of the [[File Allocation Table|FAT]] [[file system]]s which are used by MS-DOS and earlier versions of [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]; however, they typically use the [[NTFS]] (New Technology File System) by default for security and other reasons. FreeDOS can co-exist on these systems on a separate [[disk partition|partition]] or on the same partition on FAT systems. The FreeDOS kernel can be booted by adding it to the Windows 2000 or XP's NT Boot Loader configuration file, '''[[boot.ini]]''',<ref name="Herbert_2004"/> or the '''freeldr.ini''' equivalent for [[ReactOS]].<ref name="ReactOS"/>