Can't boot from floppy anymore

[Michael]

I have a dual boot system with XP and Vista and I can't boot from a floppy
anymore. This happened after I installed Vista. Does this have something to
do with BCDEdit? Anyway I can fix this? I already have "boot from a floppy"
enabled in BIOS.

 

[Michael]

the floppy has XP

 

[Lang Murphy]

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

 

[Spirit]

Check the BIOS and put the Floppy as the 1st boot device to check.

 

[David Webb]

Here's some insight from those who dared:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Vista-Boot-Disk-t95092.html

 

[philo]

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

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

 

[Michael]

that did the trick. I never had to do that before I installed Vista. Looks
like that BCD loads very early in the boot process

 

[Lang Murphy]

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

Well... I guess we'll have to agree to disagree... loading the files you
list on a floppy will let you read/write to an NTFS disk, but by no means is
one -really- running XP after booting from such a floppy.

The MS KB article that discloses what you've listed above states: "This
step-by-step article describes how to create a bootable floppy disk for
Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an
Intel-processor-based computer."

If one considers that "booted into XP" then I guess one is booted into XP. I
do not consider that functionality the same as "booting into XP."

Viva la difference.

Lang

 

[John John (MVP)]

Well... I guess we'll have to agree to disagree... loading the files you
list on a floppy will let you read/write to an NTFS disk, but by no
means is one -really- running XP after booting from such a floppy.

The MS KB article that discloses what you've listed above states: "This
step-by-step article describes how to create a bootable floppy disk for
Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an
Intel-processor-based computer."

If one considers that "booted into XP" then I guess one is booted into
XP. I do not consider that functionality the same as "booting into XP."

Gee, it takes one minute to make an NT boot floppy and boot the computer
with it, why not make one and try it then come back here and tell us the
results!

John