re: Comment about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 4:00 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DEX
(11847 messages posted)
Just a add on note***
Flashing the BIOS with NO A: drive.
Besure to read the flashcd.txt file before you burn the ISO file.
You can also use this when your floppy drive will not run/boot or when you want to
run a old DOS program from the R: cd rom drive.
Just copy DOS OS from the HD and then add it to the ISO file b/4 you burn CDRW disk
http://bootdisk.com/
http://bootdisk.com/txtfiles/flashcd.txt
http://bootdisk.com/kentucky/flashcd.zip
On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 8:37 am, DEX wrote:
> Jeff
>Well you just need to use the right tools to do what you want to do.
>If you want to flash the BIOS use a win98se boot disk or just about any boot disk
>will do it.
>The boot disk will over ride Anything that's on the HD.
>Then put in your BIOS flash disk in and run it.
>.
>You can also do it from a boot cd if you want, some of the new machine don't come
>with a floppy disk anymore.
>--------------------
>Items that are TSR need to have a OS to load them up into ram.
>-----------------
>Use msconfig or Startup CPL to stop any program from loading up at boot ( into memory/ram)
>-----------------------
>"Not EVERYONE has windows-based BIOS " = No windows base BIOS that I know about
.
>BIOS is chip on the MB that can be changed at will from the BIOS setup.
>---------------------
>DOS is dead in a way because most of the programs need RAM to run and DOS just can't
>give the machine the full ram to run the programs .
>You can run many of the old DOS base programs if you have DOS installed on your
machine
>in it's own partition.
>
>"your RAM with Microsoft's utility? guess what, it doesn't run in *Windows* ...."
>= you should not test ram in windows.
>Download this cd ,it will test your ram.
>and it's free.
>Ultimate Boot CD with MANY tools on it.
>From:
>http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
>Or
>http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4019
>
>Hope this helps a bit.
>Have a good one
>
>
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