XP boot floppy

[William B. Lurie]

I received a recommendation for using a single floppy
XP boot disk to access 'fixmbr' .......but the bootdisks
that I downloadded are a six-floppy set. Any advice on
how to get a single-floppy XP boot disk?

 

[Richard Urban]

Have never heard of a "single" boot floppy. Couldn't the person who
recommended this to you point you in the right direction, or copy his for
you?

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[William B. Lurie]

I received a recommendation for using a single floppy
XP boot disk to access 'fixmbr' .......but the bootdisks
that I downloadded are a six-floppy set. Any advice on
how to get a single-floppy XP boot disk?

Or how to get to 'fixmbr' any way at all?

 

[Harry Ohrn]

fixmbr is an option that is run from the Recovery Console. Use either the 6
floppy set or your XP CD.
There is a single floppy DOS disk that can be used to install XP but you can
not run fixmbr from it. That disk is found at Plato's site here
www.bootdisk.com

 

[Mike Hall]

There was a single boot diskette available from www.bootdisk.com .. last
time I heard that you have to pay for it..

 

[Richard]

I received a recommendation for using a single floppy
XP boot disk to access 'fixmbr' .......but the bootdisks
that I downloadded are a six-floppy set. Any advice on
how to get a single-floppy XP boot disk?

Some time ago I made a floppy to boot direct to XP if there was any problem
with it's boot record. By chance I happened to test it this morning as I was
replacing CO drive, the boot drive, whilst XP is on D drive. While the New C
drive was still bare and unformatted I could boot to XP from the floppy with
no problem.

All you have to do is copy the following files to a floppy formatted in XP.
Boot config settings, NT DETECT and NTldr. I note that I had also copied
Boot sector Dos though that Is probably not essential.

I hope this is of some use.

Richard.

 

[William B. Lurie]

Some time ago I made a floppy to boot direct to XP if there was any problem
with it's boot record. By chance I happened to test it this morning as I was
replacing CO drive, the boot drive, whilst XP is on D drive. While the New C
drive was still bare and unformatted I could boot to XP from the floppy with
no problem.

All you have to do is copy the following files to a floppy formatted in XP.
Boot config settings, NT DETECT and NTldr. I note that I had also copied
Boot sector Dos though that Is probably not essential.

I hope this is of some use.

Richard.

Thank you, Richard, but that's beyond what I can handle.
W B L

 

[William B. Lurie]

fixmbr is an option that is run from the Recovery Console. Use either the 6
floppy set or your XP CD.
There is a single floppy DOS disk that can be used to install XP but you can
not run fixmbr from it. That disk is found at Plato's site here
www.bootdisk.com

My machine doesn't get me to RC, Harry. It says
there's a file missing, ntldr.dll I think.
Is there a way to get RC onto my machine,
or do I have to use the original CD.......and
how do I use IT to get me to where I can fixmbr...
My problem is that it doesn't boot all the way to
"Loading your personal settings"......almost, but
not quite.

 

[William B. Lurie]

fixmbr is an option that is run from the Recovery Console. Use either the 6
floppy set or your XP CD.
There is a single floppy DOS disk that can be used to install XP but you can
not run fixmbr from it. That disk is found at Plato's site here
www.bootdisk.com

Harry, when I boot from XP CD and it gets to choice of RC or
whatever, I select RC and it says it can't find c:\system32\hal.dll
but a search of that drive when it is visible as Slave,
shows hal.dll in a dozen places, including in system32.
It's a Catch-22....I need to run RC to fixmbr, but it won't
run RC because it can't find that file. Did I search for it
in the wrong place? Should I start a new thread, since we're
out of the XP boot floppy area already.

William B. Lurie

 

[Guest]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330184&Product=winxp
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_h.htm

 

[William B. Lurie]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330184&Product=winxp
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_h.htm

Thanks... Kelly might lead to a solution of the problem.
I can run that system as HDD-1 and change boot.ini but
I'm not sure what it should be. However.......it's easy to
experiment with, altho' time consuming.

 

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Why not put in the disk that you made back in June for just such a problem?

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Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________In response to__________
| Thanks... Kelly might lead to a solution of the problem.
| I can run that system as HDD-1 and change boot.ini but
| I'm not sure what it should be. However.......it's easy to
| experiment with, altho' time consuming.
|
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| William B. Lurie

 

[William B. Lurie]

Why not put in the disk that you made back in June for just such a problem?

Because it is not consistent. Doing same thing
time and again doesn't work all the time. I
wish I knew why! I'm still experimenting.