DOS\WINDOWS Boot Disks

[Bob]

Not sure I have the right newsgroup - I have Xp Pro.

1) What's the purpose of creating a DOS Startup Disk (See
File\Format\Options)in Windows XP? There appears to be no
help available on this.

And... 2) Why not create a Windows Boot Disk instead (like
Windows 98) and use it for bootup when you cannot get into
Windows. Help for this in XP should also be detailed
somewhere. The only reference I can find is on the
Knowledge Base, Q314079, but little in XP explains how,
why or when.

Bob

 

[Malvern]

Two posts I saved on this:

From: "Thorsten Matzner" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: how to make a bootable system floppy disk under XP?
Date: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:01 AM

See "Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311073) and "How to Use System Files to
Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314079).

From Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User

If you have a Windows XP installation CD, it's bootable, and that's your
emergency startup disk.

However, you can download diskettes here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=boot+dis
k&DisplayLang=en