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Booting from 6 disks
Name: Damien Date: November 25, 2003 at 19:41:00 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: Athlon/512
Comment:
Ok, I've now got the 6 floppy disks to help me run a repair of windows but I can't get my computer to run them. I checked bios and boot order is floppy, HD, the ls101 (or something like that). I put in the disk turned on my computer and then it just when to the screen where I can choose how to start windows since it didn;t start up(none fo the options work, safe..etc.). It does saying verifying dmi info or something like that before this page loads which it didn't do before so I think I'm close, any suggestions?
Name: Navigator1 Date: November 25, 2003 at 20:03:08 Pacific
Reply:
Yes I just tried to boot from the 6 floppies also. It just gave the same options as I get from the XP cd. It then wanted the cd so not sure what advantage having the 6 floppies is.
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Response Number 2
Name: teri Date: November 25, 2003 at 20:08:16 Pacific
Reply:
There is no advantage having the 6 boot disks over the CD. Much easier to set your PC to boot from CD and access the repair console that way than to jack around with 6 floppies. As stated above the floppies don't do any more for you that the CD does so why bother.
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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth Date: November 25, 2003 at 21:08:52 Pacific
Reply:
Baloney!!!
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Anybody that has ever had serious issues reloading a PC and had to fool around to reload it,knows that when all else fails a working and defect free boot disk remains a tool to never be without.
There is something you guys are overlooking and that is why things are not working the way they should.
Make sure the boot disk is genuine and defect free, also clear the NVRAM and try it again..
Goodluck.
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Response Number 4
Name: wanderer Date: November 25, 2003 at 23:05:37 Pacific
Reply:
Does someone have a toothache?
A working boot floppy has its place but not in a repair or reload of a ntldr based OS like NT/W2K/XP.
MSdos.sys based OS's, sure a boot disk with cdrom drivers are great but in the modern age of bootable cdroms???
Catch up with the times.
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Response Number 5
Name: x86 Date: November 25, 2003 at 23:40:26 Pacific
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