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Creating start-up disk in xp
Name: harabas05 Date: October 1, 2005 at 15:02:52 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Pentium
Comment:
I just want to ask If I can create a start-up disk using windows xp,Like in windows 98
Name: jboy Date: October 1, 2005 at 15:11:30 Pacific
Reply:
It's a six diskette set - the folks in the WinXP forum (naturally) can tell you how to create them - otherwise, they can be downloaded
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: October 1, 2005 at 22:26:55 Pacific
Reply:
According to the mythology, XP allows you to format a floppy and make it bootable.
So it depends on whether 'startup' means 'boot' or 'begin the XP installation flail'.
In DOS-based winders, one size sort of fits all. But not in NT.
As jboy indicates, more of an XP question than 9x.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: name Date: October 2, 2005 at 09:33:33 Pacific
Reply:
Mechanix2Go is essentially correct, you can create what amounts to a '98 startup floppy in X tra P utrid, but if you have your C drive formatted in NTFS, THAT FLOPPY WILL NOT do you much good, because it won't recognize your HDD.
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Response Number 4
Name: StuartS Date: October 2, 2005 at 14:54:22 Pacific
Reply:
You can create a bootable floppy from within XP. All is does is create a basic boot disk. It actually uses the DOS version that came with Windows ME. IO.SYS, MS-SYS, Command.com and thats your lot.
Its purposes is to create a boot floppy for flashing the BIOS. After that it is not much use for anything else.
Stuart
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Response Number 5
Name: harabas05 Date: October 4, 2005 at 14:03:16 Pacific
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