Re: can't make the '3 file boot disk'

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 10/07/04 

Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:50:03 +0100

James Hanley wrote:

>I put the 3 files: ntdetect.com, ntldr, boot.ini onto a floppy.
>I set the bios to look at the floppy. I booted, but it doesn't
>recognise it as a boot disk, it says "disk error" as if it's any old
>disk, not a boot disk.
>
>Attributes are A SHR for ntdetect.com and ntldr
>boot.ini is A SH
>
>Those are the same attributes that those files have on my hard drive.

I think you will need first to format the floppy taking the 'MSDOS
Startup disk option. You wilt not then need the files actually put on
but that will write the needed basic boot code in the first sector 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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