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Boot Disk for Windows 2000 Professional?
Name: JMan Date: June 15, 2001 at 12:23:02 Pacific
Comment:
Is there a boot disk for Windows 2000 or a way to create one? I know with Windows 98 you use to be able to make one from add/remove programs or in Windows Explorer. I don't see that option anymore.
I need a boot disk to flash the BIOS on my SCSI card and am having no luck.
From what I saw in Windows 2000 there looked like an option to create a boot disk, but it requires 4 disks. Is that the option I am looking for? I tried creating a recovery disk, but I can't boot from it.
Name: Michael Ward Date: June 15, 2001 at 12:58:10 Pacific
Reply:
pop in the upgrade cd, browse it to the folder "makeboot" and run makeboot.exe. You will need 4 floppy disks for this. This will create the Windows 2000 boot disks. Then boot your system with the boot disks and you'll be able to install 2000.
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Response Number 2
Name: Ben Peterson Date: June 15, 2001 at 13:02:38 Pacific
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The boot disk that requires 4 disk is to install windows 2000, or repair your existing windows 2000 system. It is a good idea to have these just in case the day may come when you windows instillation goes sour. I think what you are trying to do is enter dos correct? If that is do a windows 98 boot disk would work fine.
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Response Number 3
Name: Lucid Date: June 15, 2001 at 13:04:56 Pacific
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The Windows 2000 boot disks won't help you on the flash upgrade. You need to get your hands on a Windows 9x boot disk and use that. Yes, it's strange, but that's the way it works unless you format in FAT to begin with (which I wouldn't). You'll either have to boot with the Windows 9x disk and then run the program off your flash disk, or else copy it to a boot disk and let it autorun on boot (use Windows 95 disk if this is the case, and you might have to manually remove one or two files). Do all that, or run around the web and find an image of an MS-DOS boot disk and use it to make a boot disk you can copy the flash files to (lot more free space with MS-DOS boot disk than Windows 9x)......
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Response Number 4
Name: newgrl Date: June 15, 2001 at 14:00:04 Pacific
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