Ho Do I Make a Floppy "Bootable" in Win2K?

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I am trying to make a Floppy "Bootable" in Win2k Prof. When I format the disk and install the "Anti-Virus Emergency" recovery info to the floppy I get a message that the "NTLDR" is missing when I try to use it. How can I make this Floppy "Bootable" ?

Thank you in advance for your help...

Val
 
I assume you are trying to make a bootable recovery diskette with your
antivirus program. I also assume you do not want to make the four Win 2K
boot diskettes.

What AV program is it? What did you do? What happened? Something is wrong if
your AV program did not copy ntloader.exe to the floppy.

Meanwhile, try copying ntloader.exe from your root directory (usually C:\)
to the floppy and try again. It probably won't work, but you never know...
 
www.bootdisk.com

Val said:
I am trying to make a Floppy "Bootable" in Win2k Prof. When I format the
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disk and install the "Anti-Virus Emergency" recovery info to the floppy I
get a message that the "NTLDR" is missing when I try to use it. How can I
make this Floppy "Bootable" ?
 
Hi Walter

You are correct in both of your assumptions.

The program is AVG6.0 from Grisoft...free addition.

I loaded a floppy, "one of three", like it instructed me to do. It wanted me to format the disk to make it bootable by clicking "format" and the "transfer system files" options.

The problem is that there is no "transfer system files" option for me to click on and therefore it does not make it bootable.

I tried to copy the "ntloader.exe" like you suggested but I was not able to find that exact file...I was however able to find "Ntldr" and "NTDETECT.COM" both system files (all caps is the way it showed). I tried them both together but not seperate and when I booted off the floppy it said that it did not have the proper "boot.ini" info so it went to c:\winnt\something...and booted normally.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Val
 
Thank you for your suggestion.

I read the article and tried to use the files the way it said but all it does is cause it to do a normal boot...it does not allow it to boot the Anti-Virus program that I am trying to use for recovery purposes.

Any other help is greatly appreciated.

Val

Emmers Presson said:
Here's a good article:

101668 How to Use a Windows Boot Disk to Prevent Boot Failure in Windows
2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=101668

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Emmers Presson [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Val said:
I am trying to make a Floppy "Bootable" in Win2k Prof. When I format the
disk and install the "Anti-Virus Emergency" recovery info to the floppy I
get a message that the "NTLDR" is missing when I try to use it. How can I
make this Floppy "Bootable" ?

Thank you in advance for your help...

Val
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Thank you Sam for your input.

I went to bootdisk.com but was not able to find how to make a disk bootable other than OE type disks.

What I am looking to do is make a floppy with "bootable" abilities and then add the program info that I need to add.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Val
 
There's something curious here. I use AVG free, and it has no capability of
making a recovery diskette.

Btw, what exactly would you expect from an AVG recovery diskette if it
existed? You might find the Win 2K Emergency Recovery Diskette more
suitable, and it is basically useless. There is no good way to recover from
a computer that has been trashed by viruses other than starting over: cry
for a while, then format c:, and reinstall the OS and s/w.
 
In order to accomplish what you want to do, your system must be installed on a
hard drive that was formatted in either FAT16 or FAT32. In this case you could
use a Win98 boot disc to access it.

Otherwise, access to an NTFS formatted hard drive cannot be obtained by booting
from a floppy disc alone. As stated in the MSKB article cited by Emmers Presson,
"This disk is different from an MS-DOS boot disk because the entire Windows
operating system cannot fit on one disk as MS-DOS can. A Windows boot disk
contains the files necessary to start the operating system with the remainder of
the Windows system files installed on the hard disk drive."

There are special utilities available that enable one to read & write to an NTFS
drive, but they are expensive. See this link for more info:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml

So if your system is using NTFS, the instructions from AVG for the rescue discs
are not applicable.

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Eric McGillicudy

Val said:
Thank you Sam for your input.

I went to bootdisk.com but was not able to find how to make a disk bootable other than OE type disks.

What I am looking to do is make a floppy with "bootable" abilities and then
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add the program info that I need to add.
 
As sad as it is...it looks like I will have to reformat and load the o\s again.

I was hoping to be able to use the "Emergency Virus Disks" from AVG to recover from a suspected Virus but as you stated I have the wrong fs.

Thank you for your help Walter...hope the following helps you.

"AVG 6.0 Free Version from Grisoft" does offer a "3 Rescue Disk Set".
Just click on the start button...go to Programs...AVG 6.0 Anti-Virus System...AVG 6.0 for Windows...when is finishes loading click the "Service" tab at the top left then
"Create Recsue Disk"
 
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