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How the #@!* do I boot DOS from floppy in NT4
Name: Nathan Date: January 23, 1999 at 23:02:45 Pacific
Comment:
When I put a bootable floppy in the drive, NT4 Workstation won't boot it because "Can't find NTLDR". Well, duh. How do I get it to stop looking for NTLDR and just boot up what's on the floppy?!?!??!?!?!?
Name: Dummy Date: January 24, 1999 at 20:44:51 Pacific
Reply:
Go into your CMOS and change the boot sequence...#@!*&
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Response Number 2
Name: Kenny Date: January 31, 1999 at 20:04:50 Pacific
Reply:
You probably formatted the disk under NT. If you want this disk to boot, you need to format it and make it bootable with Win95/98.
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Response Number 3
Name: Luis Ferro Date: February 11, 1999 at 05:39:02 Pacific
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The only way i know to create to create start-up floppy disks in NT is to create recover disks. And they will send you to the Setup/Recover process. This disks have the disvantage to be unique to the machine. So you will have to make a set for each computer.
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Response Number 4
Name: Christian Date: February 24, 1999 at 06:12:13 Pacific
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Don't make the Disk bootable under NT,use a normal DOS 6.x-PC !
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Response Number 5
Name: JonKx Date: March 31, 2000 at 12:40:37 Pacific
Reply:
It depends on what you want to do. First go to the bios and make sure that it will boot from a floppy, with the precendence being floppy first or cdrom first and floppy second. Remove any bootable CD.
Now if you merely want to do some hardware maintenance such as converting your ATA drive from Ultra33 to Ultra66 (or vice versa), then find another system with Windows (not NT) and create a boot floppy on that system. (format /S should work, but this is not available on NT.) Copy whatever DOS utilities you need to run onto the DOS boot floppy, insert into the NT system floppy drive and reboot. You should get a DOS prompt, e.g. A:
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