Re: Can't boot from floppy anymore

Refer to the section titled "Resolving startup issues with a boot floppy disk"
in the following tech article:

How to create a bootable floppy disk for an NTFS or FAT partition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305595

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the floppy has XP

Uh... what? Never heard of a bootable XP floppy. Most likely, you have a
DOS
bootable diskette with drivers to access FAT32 and/or NTFS disks.

What errors are you getting when you try to boot from the disk?

Lang

What OS does the floppy have on it?

-Frank


If you format a floppy on an XP machine then copy over the "boot" files
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini the floppy will boot you right into XP
.

Since Vista uses a different boot loader that boot floppy cannot work for
booting into Vista

Interesting. I have a general question regarding the use of this specific
boot floppy. Can I assume the only time it could be useful is if one or
more of the three files (ntldr, ntdetect.com, boot.ini) on the hard disk is
corrupted or missing? Or are there some other possible situations that
would allow it to boot where the HD wouldn't?



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