how to create MS startup boot disk in windows 2000??

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John Davis

Anyone knows how to create startup boot disk in windows 2000? I right click
the floopy disk icon and select format, it doesn't have the option to create
boot up disk like windows XP.

Please advice. Thanks,
John
 
I mean to create a MS startup boot disk, so that the computer can boot up
from a floopy. In Windows 98, we can do it in Add/Remove Programs. But I
can't see it in Windows XP.
 
Anyone knows how to create startup boot disk in windows 2000? I
right click the floopy disk icon and select format, it doesn't
have the option to create boot up disk like windows XP.
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This is long, please read the whole thing:

There are three different disk that are often called "boot disks" used
for Windows 2000:

1. A set of 4 diskettes used for starting Windows 2000 Setup.
2. A single boot disk that will start your Windows 2000 installation if
your boot sector becomes damaged.
3. A single DOS boot disk that can be used to flash your BIOS.

Which do you need?

If 1. Insert your Win2k CD in any PC running DOS or WIN9x or WIN2k,
browse to the "BOOTDISK" directory and type "MAKEBOOT.EXE".

If 2. Format a blank floppy and copy boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com
on to the floppy.

If 3. Insert your Win3K CD and browse to the VALUEADD/3RDPARTY/CA_ANITV
directory and run the program MAKEDISK.BAT which will create a bootable
floppy with Antivirus files to check your boot sector. Just add the
necessary BIOS flashing files to the disk (you may have to delete the
antivirus program to have enough room).

Your best option is to create ALL of the above, sooner or later you'll
need them and it only takes 6 floppies to do it.

Hope this helps?
 
Thanks,

So each OS has its own set of "boot disks"?? If I just boot up a computer by
FDD in any OS, can i just use any "boot disks" created by any OS? That's
confused me. What's the differences between DOS boot disk without CD ROM
Drivers, and Win98 boot disk with CD ROM Support? Both floopy disks have
fdisk program. Win98 boot disk doesn't have format program but DOS boot disk
has the format program.

Please advice,
thanks.

John
 
XS11E said:
This is long, please read the whole thing:

There are three different disk that are often called "boot disks" used
for Windows 2000:

1. A set of 4 diskettes used for starting Windows 2000 Setup.
2. A single boot disk that will start your Windows 2000 installation if
your boot sector becomes damaged.
3. A single DOS boot disk that can be used to flash your BIOS.

Which do you need?

If 1. Insert your Win2k CD in any PC running DOS or WIN9x or WIN2k,
browse to the "BOOTDISK" directory and type "MAKEBOOT.EXE".

If 2. Format a blank floppy and copy boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com
on to the floppy.

If 3. Insert your Win3K CD and browse to the VALUEADD/3RDPARTY/CA_ANITV
directory and run the program MAKEDISK.BAT which will create a bootable
floppy with Antivirus files to check your boot sector. Just add the
necessary BIOS flashing files to the disk (you may have to delete the
antivirus program to have enough room).

Your best option is to create ALL of the above, sooner or later you'll
need them and it only takes 6 floppies to do it.

Hope this helps?
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XS11E:

When following Step 2, should this "single boot disk that will start
your Windows 2000 Setup" also be made bootable with makeboot.exe or
with Makedisk.bat?

Thank you,
Jan
 
(e-mail address removed) (Jan) wrote in
When following Step 2, should this "single boot disk that will
start your Windows 2000" also be made bootable with
makeboot.exe or with Makedisk.bat?
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I should have said to format the floppy with a Windows 2000 machine, if
you do, and copy the files boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com to it, the
necessary files will be there. It will be bootable. Your system will
boot perfectly normally using it, the only difference you'll see is the
light on the floppy coming on and the system will boot just a little
slower because floppies are very slow compared to the hard drive.

It's a nice thing to have if your boot sector on your harddrive should
become damaged.
 
I'd like to make a disk that will allow me to get at my
files without starting win2k will the bios flashing disk
work or do i need to look for a dos disk? I'm skeptical as
to whether a DOS disk would work since the hard drive is
formatted NTFS... I just need to fet to my files!
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The DOS disk won't work, DOS can't see NTFS files. There's a free
program that allows DOS to see NTFS files but if you want to do
anything with them, that version costs a LOT of money.

Why do you need to get to your files? Is your machine broken? More
info would help, can you boot on the Win2k CD or the 4 Win2k Setup
Disks and select the repair option?
 
Pegasus said:
What exactly is it that you wish to do with your Win2000 boot
disk? Start the installation of Win2000 that is on your hard disk?
Access your files on the hard disk without starting Win2000?
Launch the Command Console Mode?
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I'd also like to create a boot disk.

I'd like to create a boot disk so as to get write access to a security
log file (scepol.log) that has become overly large.

Is this possible on a box with a NTFS formatted HD?
 
W2K doesn't allow you to make boot disks like Win95, 98
and XP. They do have ERD set of 4 u can make, or for
installation puposes running off the CD
 
the W2K CD is bootable

Bootdisk are also available from http://www.bootdisk.com

more info here

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBE/tip2000/rh2067.htm
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I made the set of 4 "setup" boot disks for Win2k (downloaded from
bootdisk.com) and have a question ... when booting from these diskettes,
the only choices one has is to do either a Setup or Repair. I presume the
Setup option is for (re)installing Win2k. What does Repair do? And why is
there no option to fallback to a command line, which is what I was after
(and perhaps the OP as well)?

Joe
 
Joe McArthur said:
I made the set of 4 "setup" boot disks for Win2k (downloaded from
bootdisk.com) and have a question ... when booting from these diskettes,
the only choices one has is to do either a Setup or Repair. I presume the
Setup option is for (re)installing Win2k. What does Repair do? And why is
there no option to fallback to a command line, which is what I was after
(and perhaps the OP as well)?
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Repair is to repair a damaged 2k install.
There is no option to go to a command prompt because those are actually
install disks, not boot disks.
Thier sole purpose is to repair or install Windows, nothing more or less.
If you want a command prompt interface, boot with the CD and choose the
recovery console.
It's about as dos like as your going to get in an NT enviroment without
using a third part app like ntfs4dos.
The big question is what do you want to do at a command prompt?
The real answer to your question depends on the answer to that.
 
Repair is to repair a damaged 2k install.
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Interesting. What does "damaged install" mean? In as much as an install
is either successful, or it isn't, is "damaged" simply another way of
referring to an install that was not successful? Does the repair process
figure out how far the unsuccessful install managed to get, and then
continue it from there?
There is no option to go to a command prompt because those are
actually install disks, not boot disks.
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Ok. It's just that it seems as though enough of a system has been
established, after all four disks have been processed, that at least the
HDD file system could be interacted with, and perhaps some rudimentary
functionality available as well.
If you want a command prompt interface, boot with the CD and
choose the recovery console.
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I assume you mean a regular installation CD, as opposed to a recovery CD.
I only have a recovery CD, which, like the setup boot diskettes, won't
fallback to a command line. I also don't recall any "recovery console"
option, but then I didn't go very far into it, being afraid of
inadvertantly invoking the recovery process and wiping out my HD.
It's about as dos like as your going to get in an NT enviroment
without using a third part app like ntfs4dos.
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Sounds like this (recovery console thing) may be what I'm looking for. Is
it available as a separate entity? In other words, I don't wish to buy a
Win2k install disk just to get it.
The big question is what do you want to do at a command prompt?
The real answer to your question depends on the answer to that.
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As intimated above, I'd just like to have some rudimentary functionality -
access to the HDD file system and some basic commands (e.g. attrib, chdir,
chkdsk, copy, dir, del, format, mkdir, rename, tree, type, xcopy, etc.). I
realize that one can boot to safe mode w/ command prompt and have this
functionality, but I suspect that there is a lot of unnecessary -- and
perhaps undesirable -- extra system stuff loaded at this time.

Joe
 
Joe McArthur said:
Interesting. What does "damaged install" mean? In as much as an install
is either successful, or it isn't, is "damaged" simply another way of
referring to an install that was not successful? Does the repair process
figure out how far the unsuccessful install managed to get, and then
continue it from there?
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A "damaged install" does not mean the actual installion process, it means
the operating system that is installed on the computer.
If windows becomes curropted and will no longer boot, you can do a "repair
install" to re-install it over top of itself, repairing windows and keeping
your programs and settings intact.
Ok. It's just that it seems as though enough of a system has been
established, after all four disks have been processed, that at least the
HDD file system could be interacted with, and perhaps some rudimentary
functionality available as well.
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That is not the purpose of the disks, so why would you believe they should
do something they where not designed to do?
If you need to get to a command prompt to repair windows, you use the
recovery console. That is what it was designed for.
You have to use the proper tool for the job.
I assume you mean a regular installation CD, as opposed to a recovery CD.
I only have a recovery CD, which, like the setup boot diskettes, won't
fallback to a command line. I also don't recall any "recovery console"
option, but then I didn't go very far into it, being afraid of
inadvertantly invoking the recovery process and wiping out my HD.
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A recovery CD is next to worthless for this.
Sounds like this (recovery console thing) may be what I'm looking for. Is
it available as a separate entity? In other words, I don't wish to buy a
Win2k install disk just to get it.
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Unfortunetly, yes. It is part of a true win2k disk.
As intimated above, I'd just like to have some rudimentary functionality -
access to the HDD file system and some basic commands (e.g. attrib, chdir,
chkdsk, copy, dir, del, format, mkdir, rename, tree, type, xcopy, etc.).
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I

Most of those commands are not going to work. Win2k is not DOS and it is not
DOS based, so you cannot use DOS utilitites
and commands. The only reason to go into the recovery console is to make
repairs or remove files that cannot be removed through the GUI. Win2k was
not designed tyo be accessed this way. This is not Windows 95/98. You can
cause a great deal of damage to your OS very easily with just a few key
strokes if you do not know exectly what you are doing. My advice to you is
stay out of the recovery console until you fully understand the OS.
 
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