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Creating NT 4 boot disc
Name: Boom Boom! Date: August 5, 2000 at 06:13:16 Pacific
Comment:
I am trying to install NT4 onto a re-formated hard drive. I wish to know how to create a boot disc. Can you help please?
Name: Kaiser Anwar Date: August 5, 2000 at 09:00:40 Pacific
Reply:
You can start your computer with dos boot disk. Change to cd rom drive. go to I386 dir on your cd and type winnt /0x this will ask you to put floppy disks you will need three of them once they are done you can do the installtion.
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Response Number 2
Name: wong Date: August 5, 2000 at 09:20:09 Pacific
Reply:
NT4 CD is a bootable CD. You will need to alter the BIOS to boot from CD first (ie. the booting sequence must have CD before the hard-disk (C:)). That is a convenient way installing NT. You should use DOS (ie. MS-DOS 6.22) FDISK to create a primary active DOS partition (maximum 2GB (2047MB)) first, formatted and put DOS on it before you can install NT.
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