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Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 4:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jimbo
(1 messages posted)
Concernig How
do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?:
HOLD ON!
Unfortunately, DOS is not dead. In order to boot into DOS from XP/2000, your best
bet is to create a MS-DOS startup disk in Windows XP (Windows 2000 does not have
this capability). Insert any 3 1/2" floppy, right-click the A:\ drive in Windows
Explorer, and choose "Format...". Make sure you check the "Create an MS-DOS startup
disk" checkbox, then press the "Start" button. This will create a bootable floppy
for XP or 2000.
As long as your BIOS has the 3 1/2" Floppy set as one of the boot drives (preferably
the first), you can use the Startup disk to BOOTUP INTO MS-DOS REGARDLESS OF YOUR
O/S.
This is quite NECESSARY for FLASHing your BIOS, since you cannot have any OS processes
running in the background.
Yes DOS and Microsoft suck, but hats off for thinking ahead...
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 | Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Jimbo: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 4:55 pm) |
 |  | | | |  | re: Win3.x (Adam Bradley: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 8:04 pm) |
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| | | | | | re: Win3.x (Adam Bradley: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 8:18 pm) |
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