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Can I start windows from a floppy?
Name: Vasilis Date: December 11, 2001 at 02:03:04 Pacific
Comment:
Is there a way to start windows from a floppy and prevent them to start from hard disk?
Name: justin Date: December 11, 2001 at 04:53:19 Pacific
Reply:
I did it once with win95. I'm not sure how anymore, but that's because the sheer time windows took to load and run was massive that it was no longer an option.
Anytime I did anything in windows it went through the floppy.
both win.com and explorer.exe are small and can fit into a floppy. which one i copied to disk to load windows is beyond me anymore. After windows loaded anytime windows called a dll or anything else it just went to the floppy to access C: drive. And we all know how slow floppies are.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chappie Date: December 11, 2001 at 06:50:45 Pacific
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Hi, copy the file C:\MSDOS.SYS to the boot floppy and the system should boot then continue loading Windows.
It will access A: Drive continously. Some times the command set comspecs=c:\command.com will stop the floppy hunt and use the Command on C: HTH
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Response Number 3
Name: dmorse03 Date: December 11, 2001 at 18:14:07 Pacific
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There may be a better way - if we knew what are your reasons for wanting to use the FD. Are you trying to keep others from starting your pc? You can do that without needing the floppy. Advise. Don
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