Re: Can't boot from floppy anymore

Actually, upon rereading it, it looks like it covers a bit more than the
possibilities I mentioned below. So thanks.

Bill in Co. wrote:
Yes, it talks about a faulty boot sequence (which is slightly ambiguous).
But I have used DOS formatted bootup disks before, and my question was
very
specific about this type of bootdisk, and if my assumptions below were
correct (about using this type of boot disk over the other DOS formatted
boot disk, which I'm pretty sure won't (normally) allow access to NTFS).

David Webb wrote:
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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