Booting from floppies

[Richard Fangnail]

When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
Windows Me machine?

 

[Primal Oooze]

When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
Windows Me machine?

I don't know. But you can download a ME boot disk from
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

 

[John O]

When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is

wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
Windows Me machine?

Yes.

-John O

 

[Tim Slattery]

When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
Windows Me machine?

When you boot from a floppy the OS installed on the hard drive is not
used at all. The OS on the floppy - nearly always some version of DOS
- is in control.

If the floppy's OS can't handle the file system of any hard disk
partition, then you won't be able to see that partition. Since nearly
all bootable floppies have a copy of DOS, booting from them leaves any
NTFS partitions invisible.

 

[Richard Fangnail]

Don't a lot of people not have floppy drives (esp on laptops) - hence
they would have to have boot cds and not boot floppies.

 

[Plato]

Don't a lot of people not have floppy drives (esp on laptops) - hence
they would have to have boot cds and not boot floppies.

YEs.

 

[John Wunderlich]

Don't a lot of people not have floppy drives (esp on laptops) - hence
they would have to have boot cds and not boot floppies.

Check out the Bart PE site for a free bootable recovery CD.
<http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/>

-- John