rescue floppy

[Guest]

It was so simple to create a rescue disk floppy with my ME. Now with Vista I
can't find hide nor hair of a way to do it. There is no "System maintenance"
like on ME
-- I think Vista was a step backward.
Brother Raphael

 

[Dave]

Now you have a bootable DVD.

 

[Richard Urban]

Since Windows ME was based upon DOS, you could boot up with a DOS floppy and
perform a lot of maintenance from there. Anyone with access to your computer
could also do a lot of damage from there, up to wiping your hard drive clean
of all information.

All versions of NT (Windows NT 3.5, 3.51, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
and Vista) are built upon the NT kernel. This is "definitely" a more secure
operating system and leaps ahead of Windows ME/Windows 98 - whether you
believe so or not. These systems can not be repaired by booting up from a
DOS floppy, unless you are running the O/S on a fat32 partition (Vista can
not on such).

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Tiberius]

the DVD disk itself that you have with vista on it, is bootable and takes
the place of a bootable floppy.

some new computers don't even have floppies anymore... they are being fazed
out slowly...

If you want to create a bootable floppy for another computer take a look at
www.bootdisk.com

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

It was so simple to create a rescue disk floppy with my ME. Now with Vista I
can't find hide nor hair of a way to do it.

That's correct. It's because Vista, like Windows XP, Windows 2000, and
Windows NT before it, are not based on DOS, as was Windows Me.

You don't need a rescue floppy, since your DVD (or CD, with XP) is
your rescue disk.

 

[Tiberius]

I believe it was possible to make a win98 boot disk from windows XP
if im not mistaken, by right clicking on the floppy?

I have detached my floppy drive and it has been a long time.....

 

[Guest]

Running XP, you put a floopy in, right-click, select format, and you could
make a MS-DOS disk

I believe it was possible to make a win98 boot disk from windows XP
if im not mistaken, by right clicking on the floppy?

I have detached my floppy drive and it has been a long time.....

 

[Tiberius]

YES I remember that.. thats what i was talking about...

perhaps they took this off of vista...

Running XP, you put a floopy in, right-click, select format, and you could
make a MS-DOS disk

 

[Frank]

YES I remember that.. thats what i was talking about...

perhaps they took this off of vista...

No they didn't. You can still create an MS-DOS startup disk in Vista.
Frank

 

[Guest]

Thanks for all the great suggestions. I am shocked at all the helpful
responses.

 

[Tiberius]

No problem...

out of curiosity I checked out one of my other computers with vista on it
that has a floppy, and right clicked on the floppy>
format... and LOW AND BEHOLD!

there is still a "Ceate an MS-DOS startup disk" on Vista... lol ... so much
for MVPs..

See screenshot here:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5074/untitledvd0.jpg

Although win2k, XP, and vista are based on NT kernels and they all used a CD
or DVD for a start up disk, it seems they still wanted to retain
this capability for use with other computers...

also another trivia is that there are boot disks for win2k and XP that fit
on 4 or more floppies... 4 or 5 I think it was with XP...

for those who had motherboards that did not support a boot from cd
capability....