Re: Question about a 'boot floppy'

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Many, many buyers of PC's do not receive a Windows XP CD with their
purchase. They then, need to create/write
recovery floppies/discs..
"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jethro wrote:
I have learned that making a bootable, recovery floppy disk
containing the three files - boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect.com can
be invaluable to getting a problem XP installation to work again.

What I am wondering is - suppose I need to modify something in, say,
the boot.ini file (such as the 'partition(#)'. Can I do such an
edit on the problem machine somehow? Or am I forced to do it on a
second working machine using. for example, notepad.exe? If I don't
happen to have a second machine, am I in deep doo doo? Maybe there
is a small edit program that can be co-located on the recovery
floppy that could run from the floppy?

Or is this a dumb question? I hope not.

With Windows XP - it is far less necessary to make a bootable floppy
diskette. The Windows XP CD itself is bootable and contains the tools
most people will need to recover a system. Beyond that - far more
valuable CDs can be made such as:

Ultimate Boot CD for Windows
http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Those (especially the first, given the question asked) will give you more
familiar environments to work in with more familiar tools.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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