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.

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Go to www.microsoft.com and you will find there help for Xp and in there search for boot disk and you will see a program to download. You need 4 to 6 disks if I not wrong. I hope this helps.

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the best way to boot a win2k system from a floppy is to use a windows 98 boot disk. even if the system is on ntfs. download a driver called ntfsdos and put it on your 98 boot floppy. after the system boots run ntfsdos. (or you can put it in your autoexec.bat file on your floppy). it will load up drivers for any ntfs drives it finds and you will be able to do what ever file system changes you need. xp ntfs is a little different and i have not found an updated ntfsdos to work as yet. try the link www.ntfsdos.com for the file but you might have to search for it. try it.


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.

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i tried that and, as you say it doesn't work with xp ntfs oh well

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you can boot with floppy to xp-2K OR ANY OTHER UNIT WE MADE COPIES OF SAME


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.

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Please visit the following page, http://www.tburke.net/info/ntldr/ntldr_hacking_guide.htm You will find a good reference in order to solve your question.


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.

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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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As a last ditch maneuver before formatting a NTFS disk, try this: using Partition Magic's boot diskette, boot to PQMagic. Then convert the affected drives to FAT32. Then you can fix the troublesome system in the accustomed ways. If you're a glutton for trouble, you can then use PQMagic to put the system into NTFS.


On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 2:02 pm, Rafael Niebles wrote:
>Please visit the following page,
>http://www.tburke.net/info/ntldr/ntldr_hacking_guide.htm
>
>You will find a good reference in order to solve your question.
>
>

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I once had a user asking for help, he couldn't boot his win2k pc. I made him a boot disk by formatting a floppy on my own win2k computer and then, like in NT4, copied the necessary files onto the floppy and edited the boot.ini file. His computer booted fine on that floppy...... So it IS possible to make a boot disk for win2000, only it should be made while the system is fresh and sound so then you won't have to edit any files..


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.

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This response came tantalizing close to answering the fundamental question.  However, 
it did not give details about the edits to the boot.ini for starting up from the 
floppy.

The Windows XP Annoyances book, on p.467, says that you just copy the three files 
(ntdetect.com, ntldr, boot.ini) from the root of your existing WinXP boot HDD (e.g., 
C:\) to a floppy.  I did that (without any change to boot.ini) and it did not work. 
 (As a check I was attempting to "boot" the diskette from a USB external floppy; 
all this is on a Toshiba Sat-3005-S304 notebook with WinXP-HE still working, but 
with the floppy set in the BIOS as the first boot device, and with no internal floppy 
installed).  

Note:  The USB external floppy appears not to be a problem, because it does boot 
a Win98se boot disk (although of course, then I cannot see the WinXP NTFS partition) 
and it boots PartitionMagic8 emergency diskettes (which does see the NTFS partition).






On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 2:07 am, My self wrote:
>I once had a user asking for help, he couldn't boot his win2k pc.
>I made him a boot disk by formatting a floppy on my own win2k computer and then, 
>like in NT4, copied the necessary files onto the floppy and edited the boot.ini 
file. 
>His computer booted fine on that floppy......
>So it IS possible to make a boot disk for win2000, only
>it should be made while the system is fresh and sound so then you won't have to 
edit 
>any files..
>

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Forgiveness & Apologies requested if the following suggestion has already been posted. 
Startup floppies for XP & 2K can be downloaded from http://www.labmice.net/WindowsXP/Install/bootdisk.htm 
amongst other places, I began my search at: 
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Windows+XP+and+Windows+2000+Startup+Disks+Download
I hope this helps. 
Regards & Good Luck 
Gary





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.

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I've had the same problem with W2K and solved it by creating a bootable CD, here is an excellent guide: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#howboot Hope it helps.


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.

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