- Booting from floppies
- Posted by Richard Fangnail on November 1st, 2005
When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
Windows Me machine?
- Posted by Primal Oooze on November 1st, 2005
"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in message
news:1130870028.021372.307430@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
> When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
> wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
> the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
> Windows Me machine?
>
I don't know. But you can download a ME boot disk from
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
- Posted by John O on November 1st, 2005
> When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
> wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
> the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
> Windows Me machine?
Yes.
-John O
- Posted by Tim Slattery on November 1st, 2005
"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote:
>When you boot up a Windows machine from a floppy because something is
>wrong with the harddisk, does the floppy have to be for the exact OS on
>the computer? Can a floppy bootdisk made on XP be used to boot a
>Windows Me machine?
When you boot from a floppy the OS installed on the hard drive is not
used at all. The OS on the floppy - nearly always some version of DOS
- is in control.
If the floppy's OS can't handle the file system of any hard disk
partition, then you won't be able to see that partition. Since nearly
all bootable floppies have a copy of DOS, booting from them leaves any
NTFS partitions invisible.
--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov
- Posted by Richard Fangnail on November 1st, 2005
Don't a lot of people not have floppy drives (esp on laptops) - hence
they would have to have boot cds and not boot floppies.
- Posted by Plato on November 2nd, 2005
Richard Fangnail wrote:
>
> Don't a lot of people not have floppy drives (esp on laptops) - hence
> they would have to have boot cds and not boot floppies.
YEs.
--
http://www.bootdisk.com/
- Posted by John Wunderlich on November 2nd, 2005
"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in
news:1130881928.927916.288430@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com:
> Don't a lot of people not have floppy drives (esp on laptops) - hence
> they would have to have boot cds and not boot floppies.
>
>
Check out the Bart PE site for a free bootable recovery CD.
<http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/>
-- John
