> You were supposed to make a boot floppy when you installed windowz.
> If all you want to do is access the harddrive (with dos), you can use
> anything. This may not be true for XP, I dont use it, so I dont know.
> This works for dos, win3.x, win9.x and win-me. (Not sure about win2K
> either, but I think it still works)).

NT operating systems use the NTFS (NT file system). You can install XP on
FAT32, but hardly anybody does that, and that is NOT the default setting.
Generally speaking, your boot floppy will work up to WinME, if all you want
to do is browse the contents of a hard drive. -Dave