Can Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com be put on a bootable floppy

[Guest]

Can Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com be put on a bootable floppy disk and
the disk used to boot Wxp?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Yes.

Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311073

How To Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305595

How to use System files to create a boot disk to guard against being unable
to start Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314079

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Unk]

Can Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com be put on a bootable floppy disk and
the disk used to boot Wxp?

Yes and no.

Yes, sort of... - See Wesley Vogel's post. <
No, it's a boot-through floppy. If the boot block on the hard drive is damaged, you can boot
through the floppy and start Windows OS that resides on the hard drive.
It doesn't stop at the floppy and let you explore the hard drive like the Win9x boot floppy did.

If the HD is formatted in FAT, you can use a Win9x boot floppy to explore the XP hard drive.
If the HD is formatted in NTFS, you need a stand-alone boot disk that recognizes NTFS.


All about NTFS File System: http://www.NTFS.com
FREEWARE NTFS Reader for DOS: http://www.ntfs.com/products.htm
Direct download: http://www.ntfs.com/downloads/readntfs.zip

Download self-extracting Bootable Floppy Disk Creator for NTFS Reader:
http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm

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Bart's PE Builder
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user
interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in
testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

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NTFSDOS is useful, free, utility for booting your system from a floppy
to gain read-only access to your hard disk's files.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/NTFSDOS.shtml

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

If the HD is formatted in FAT, you can use a Win9x boot floppy to explore the XP hard drive.
If the HD is formatted in NTFS, you need a stand-alone boot disk that recognizes NTFS.

BartsPE on CD covers both + USB2 support + access 2 all
files with xplorer navigation+Firefox+ ur vcard
driver+Regedit+ + + + all 4 $0 & same effort.

Worked 1st time 4 me 2.
A no-brainer.

Just my 2¢ worth. Larry

Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes

 

[Plato]

Can Ntldr, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com be put on a bootable floppy disk and
the disk used to boot Wxp?

Yes.