Re: Can't boot from floppy anymore

I think you misunderstand it's usage. The NT boot disk is not like the DOS boot
disk. It's only purpose is to bypass the normal startup from the HDD. It does
not contain an OS itself.

Regarding a DOS boot disk, similar to Win98's, it cannot natively read an NTFS
formatted drive, but there are 3rd party utilities available that can be used to
read and write NTFS files while in the DOS environment. This approach has mostly
been replaced by the use NT rescue discs similar to BartPE and UBCD4WIN, which
not only bootup from the CD, providing complete access to the mounted HDD, but
they also contain many of the utilities necessary for repair and backup of an NT
HDD.

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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

"Bill in Co." <not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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philo wrote:
"Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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