MS-DOS Bootdisk

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I need to make a mS_DOS disk for Windows to boot on during startup. I use to
be able to do this in Win98 with the Format A:\S or using the format utility
in WINXP. W2K has no option to do this. Please help.

George Schneider
 
George said:
I need to make a mS_DOS disk for Windows to boot on during startup. I use to
be able to do this in Win98 with the Format A:\S or using the format utility
in WINXP. W2K has no option to do this. Please help.

George Schneider
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www.bootdisk.com has all you could ever need to
know about making boot disks and bootable CDs.
 
George Schneider fumbled, fiddled and fingered:
I need to make a mS_DOS disk for Windows to boot on during startup.
I use to be able to do this in Win98 with the Format A:\S or using
the format utility in WINXP. W2K has no option to do this. Please
help.

George Schneider
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http://www.bootdisk.com

XP and 2000 are not MSDOS operating systems an ordinary MSDOS boot disk
will not allow you to read an NTFS formatted drive
 
In windows 2000, you can't have boot disk.
Instead, Windows 2000 installation CD is bootable. So, I suggest you to
change booting option to CD bootable in CMOS setting if your computer is
not set in that way. So, when computer starts, computer uses CD to
install windows 2000 before it boots with C drive.
 
all i need to do is boot to a command promt to run a utility i have on the
disk. I've done this in the past and I just can't remebrhow to do it.
 
Press F8 as soon as Win2K starts to load, then select 'boot to
command prompt' (or whatever it's called) from the menu.

If your utility requires actual DOS and not a Win2K command
prompt, create a bootable DOS diskette from one of the boot
floppy images at http://www.bootdisk.com.
 
Rick said:
Press F8 as soon as Win2K starts to load, then select 'boot to
command prompt' (or whatever it's called) from the menu.

If your utility requires actual DOS and not a Win2K command
prompt, create a bootable DOS diskette from one of the boot
floppy images at http://www.bootdisk.com.
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If you need to scrape some files off your hard disk using an MS-DOS
booted from a floppy, look for NTFSDOS . It's a DOS program that can
read from an NT File System. If you want to write to the NTFS partition
, that costs more.
 
George said:
I need to make a mS_DOS disk for Windows to boot on during startup. I use to
be able to do this in Win98 with the Format A:\S or using the format utility
in WINXP. W2K has no option to do this. Please help.

George Schneider
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A boot diskette is a thing of the past, as all legitimate Win2K
installation CDs are already bootable.

Simply boot from the Win2K installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)


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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
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