Re: creating a floppy boot disk


Pennywise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
dds0123 <dds0123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am attempting to load WinXP Pro onto a different HDD.
I have formatted the drive and made sure the MBR was intact.
I have set my BIOS to boot from CD.
However when I attempt to start up the computer it invariably
gives me that infamous "NTLDR is missing" message. Restarting
has no effect. I am assuming that the system cannot read the CD
and therefore has no place to start. I tried to download the floppy disks
as directed at microsoft.com and it started out OK, but failed partway
into the 2nd disk with a "file missing or corrupted" message.
So, I downloaded the Microsoft program over again and recreated
the floppies only to have it crash again at a different place with a
different message.
Can anyone tell me what files are necessary to create my own
bootable floppies? Perhaps this way I can find out in advance if I've
messed anything up in the copy process.


http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

You can boot up with a Win98 boot disk, it will load your CD, and
install by running winnt.exe.

But you also need to have smartdrv.sys loaded (google for it)

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hopefully the disk he downloads from bootdisk.com will load it.

OP: look in a:\config.sys for a line that says smartdrv
Make sure it's not a comment! Infact, the line should start with
"Device=" or "DeviceHigh="

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