re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Thursday, January 30, 2003 at 5:22 pm
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Posted by GhostWerm
(1 messages posted)
On Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at 8:58 pm, eric wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?:
>
>you can create a boot disk for xp or 2000 and it takes 4 floppies. I have not done
>it. but there is help files on it. Possibly that would allow you to get to access
>a drive with xp or 2000. another way to access your data or os is to put the corrupt
>drive with xp or 2000 as a slave on a good working xp or 2000 system as a second
>or third drive and not as the boot drive of course.
Win2k has a bootdisk creation utlity you run from the Win2k installation CD. Like
you said it takes 4 floppies. I'm not sure about XP, but I would hazard a guess it
also has a bootdisk creation utlity located on the CD. Having a Windows OS not running
on DOS does make it more secure and less buggy like the article said, however, the
downside is that it is much more difficult to troubleshoot a failing system - because
running diagnostic utlities in Windows is a fruitless task. A failing NT based system
is almost always a reinstallation case. Atempting to pinpoint a problem while Windows
is hogging tons of resources is near impossible.
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