Windows XP Boot Disk and S-ATA

[John Robert Atkinson]

Hi, I'm sorry that I don't have any hardware details to pass on, but
I'm hoping what we are doing wrong is more procedural rather than a
hardware issue.

I'm trying to help a friend create a boot disk which will
boot Windows XP of a SATA hard driver should he feel the need. He has
copied the following files onto a floppy from the root of his C: driver:

ntdetect
ntldr
boot.ini.

This didn't work. He also tried creating a ntbootdd.sys file as his c:
driver didn't have one. He tried editing his boot.ini so that the multi
now read scsi. These didn't work either. Now I don't feel there is any
need for a ntbootdd.sys since the c: drive doesn't need one, and I don't
feel that there is any need to change the multi to scsi since the c:
driver is quite happy to boot with this configuration.

Is there something blindinly obvious which we have missed? Thanks in
advance.

Zebidiah

 

[Jayne Turner]

Hi there

To create a "boot disk" i.e. a start up disk try the
following.

click my computer >
insert blank floppy into disk drive and select the drive
by RIGHT clicking it >
select format >
tick create an MS-DOS start up disk

this will create a disk to restart your system if windows
fails.

hope this is what you were after
Cheers
Jayne

 

[John Robert Atkinson]

Hi there

To create a "boot disk" i.e. a start up disk try the
following.

click my computer >
insert blank floppy into disk drive and select the drive
by RIGHT clicking it >
select format >
tick create an MS-DOS start up disk

this will create a disk to restart your system if windows
fails.

hope this is what you were after
Cheers
Jayne

Thankyou. I'll give it a try

Zeb