re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 6:36 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (8786 messages posted) You're missing the point of the article, did you even read anything but the title? That disk boots the computer into an MS-DOS OS bypassing the hard drive and installed OS completely you can't boot from a floppy then use a command to start 2000/XP, that was the point of the article you could under the MS-DOS based versions of windows because they had MS-DOS underneath them 2000/XPhave no MS-DOS, they have a command prompt but it isn't MS-DOS only a emulation of it this topic has been discussed numerous time here regards, Adam Bradley On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 4:55 pm, Jimbo wrote: >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... Written in response to: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Jimbo: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 4:55 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Wildcat: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 at 7:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Jimbo: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 4:55 pm) re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Wildcat: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 5:46 pm) re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Adam Bradley: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 6:36 pm) re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Wildcat: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 7:04 pm) re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Adam Bradley: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 7:12 pm) re: Win3.x (Wildcat: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 7:41 pm) re: Win3.x (Adam Bradley: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 8:04 pm) re: Win3.x (Wildcat: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 8:43 pm) re: Win3.x (Adam Bradley: Thu, Aug 25, 2005, 9:30 pm) re: Win3.x (Adam Bradley: Wed, Aug 24, 2005, 8:18 pm) re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?' (Bill D: Sun, May 28, 2006, 4:35 pm) 6 floppy's from microsoft (Mike: Mon, Aug 28, 2006, 5:07 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum