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Old 02-11-2003, 06:39 AM   #1
hvaldez@gvtc.com
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where do you go to make a boot up disk, I've done it
before but at the moment I'm blanked out.
thanks
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Old 02-11-2003, 03:38 PM   #2
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For the floppy to successfully boot Windows NT/2000 the disk must contain
the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x,
so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr,
ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the
boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.


Else if you meant a dos disk, you can boot a Win98 startup disk or navigate
to;
\VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\CA_ANTIV\
on your Windows 2000 install CD-Rom and execute makedisk.bat or
www.bootdisk.com


Else if you wanted setup disks, the set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k CD-rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.


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"hvaldez@gvtc.com" wrote:
> where do you go to make a boot up disk, I've done it
> before but at the moment I'm blanked out.
> thanks



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Old 02-11-2003, 03:38 PM   #3
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Default Re: bootup disk

For the floppy to successfully boot Windows NT/2000 the disk must contain
the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x,
so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr,
ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the
boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.


Else if you meant a dos disk, you can boot a Win98 startup disk or navigate
to;
\VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\CA_ANTIV\
on your Windows 2000 install CD-Rom and execute makedisk.bat or
www.bootdisk.com


Else if you wanted setup disks, the set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k CD-rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.


--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]

"hvaldez@gvtc.com" wrote:
> where do you go to make a boot up disk, I've done it
> before but at the moment I'm blanked out.
> thanks



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