ultimate boot disk?

[Greg]

I downloaded the ultimate boot disk. it supposed to be for melenium, but I
was just curious when you create the disk on a floppy does it copy specific
files from the machine that its in at the time? this question also goes for
other boot disk too.

Im using win xp home, but recently I repaired my system with a Melenium boot
disk by reformatting of course my HP notebook came with a OEM cd. I think I
said that right.

anyone?

Greg

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Greg

Your posting is confusing!! An ME boot disk will only boot - if using
FAT32 - into DOS. What are you going to do then?

Conundrum - an OEM disk will only perform a 'clean' install. How did you
repair your system with an ME EBD?

--

Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


| I downloaded the ultimate boot disk. it supposed to be for melenium, but I
| was just curious when you create the disk on a floppy does it copy
specific
| files from the machine that its in at the time? this question also goes
for
| other boot disk too.
|
| Im using win xp home, but recently I repaired my system with a Melenium
boot
| disk by reformatting of course my HP notebook came with a OEM cd. I think
I
| said that right.
|
| anyone?
|
| Greg
|
|

 

[Greg]

Then I guess your answer in even more confusing, cause I did repair my
system with a Melenium boot disk.

please dont take that wrong Im not trying to be a smart ass.

anyway....heres exactly what happened.

my HP notebook would not boot even from safe mode.

So I tried to reinstall the HP factory disk set. it would get to a certain
point and stop saying "read error" or something like that.

so I dug out a em boot disk I made with a previous machine that had win mel
installed.

I plugged my usb external floppy drive in. turned on the machine and hit the
escape key. I then chose A floppy for the boot device. I was in fdisk at one
point but I dont know or remember if I did anything with it.

next: I typed format c: and it went thru the format process. when I was
finished. my HP factory cd set installed successfully.

The hard drive was originally a NFTS drive.

thanks for input. I was just trying to learn more about how to use the
EBD's.

Greg