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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 12:14 pm
Posted by jom
(344 messages posted)
create a new boot floppy or get one from bootdisk.com
On Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 12:09 pm, Steve wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?: The article said to copy
>MSDOS.SYS to the floppy. I can't find msdos.sys file anywhere. Is it a hidden file?
>How can I get to it? If I do find it, do I copy that to the restore disk or to a
>new disk?
>
>
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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 12:23 pm
Posted by Brian Orford
(1435 messages posted)
Go to Start/Settings/Control Panel and select Add-Remove
Programs. Now select the Startup Disk Tab. The rest is easy, just
follow the instructions and you will have an up to date disk.
Brian
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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 1:25 pm
Posted by Michael
(2800 messages posted)
Msdos.sys is a hidden file, so make sure that you can see hidden files in Explorer
and then look in the root of your C: drive. In order to boot Windows from a floppy,
DOS needs to know where to find the Windows folder, and this information is held
in msdos.sys.
On Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 12:09 pm, Steve wrote:
>I have a question about Why
>can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?: The article said to copy
>MSDOS.SYS to the floppy. I can't find msdos.sys file anywhere. Is it a hidden file?
>How can I get to it? If I do find it, do I copy that to the restore disk or to a
>new disk?
>
>
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