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Name: Old Salt
Date: November 19, 2006 at 15:54:56 Pacific
OS: WinXP Pro SP2
CPU/Ram: P4-3.2/512
Product: Generic
Comment:

Hi all, I'm XP Pro and want to make a start up disc, My 80Gig HDD is split into 2 partitions about even space on both C and D.
Both are formatted in NTFS I think it's called, but the disc shoes up as format FAT 32, and I can't select NTFS in the dialog drop down it only shows FAT 32?

Any help would be appreciated.

Avagoodweekend......



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Response Number 1
Name: per
Date: November 19, 2006 at 15:57:38 Pacific
Reply:

Floppies can only be formatted in fat 32. And before Mattie gives me an education, yes, fat16 also. LOL!!


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Response Number 2
Name: per
Date: November 19, 2006 at 16:06:49 Pacific
Reply:

If you need an ntfs boot/dos disk look here.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...


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Response Number 3
Name: jboy
Date: November 19, 2006 at 16:23:17 Pacific
Reply:

... in fact, floppies tend to be FAT12

If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly

--Donald Rumsfeld


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Response Number 4
Name: per
Date: November 19, 2006 at 16:27:37 Pacific
Reply:

I was going to not mention that as it can be rather misleading. LOL!


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Response Number 5
Name: mattie
Date: November 19, 2006 at 16:36:04 Pacific
Reply:

Per ... you asked for it and here goes :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy...

Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

icq 10183575


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Response Number 6
Name: per
Date: November 19, 2006 at 16:39:20 Pacific
Reply:

LMAO! Thanks Mattie.


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Response Number 7
Name: Old Salt
Date: November 19, 2006 at 16:59:04 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks Guys,
I suspect I may go to my Acronis True Image and make a bootable CD there.

Thanks for the comments and banter.

Avagoodweekend......


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Response Number 8
Name: mattie
Date: November 19, 2006 at 17:01:04 Pacific
Reply:

you're welcome :-)

and if i may suggest to abanandon the floppy disk altogether. a nice bootable CD rom makes more sense.

you may create one yourself or get a ready-to-go image (like Hiren's Boot CD or the Ultimate Boot CD)

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren....

Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

icq 10183575


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Response Number 9
Name: jam
Date: November 19, 2006 at 18:09:42 Pacific
Reply:

I'm curious as to why you need a startup disk?


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Response Number 10
Name: QuiescentWonder
Date: November 19, 2006 at 21:25:48 Pacific
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The only problem with CDs is that you can't write to them like floppies. You can make bootable USB flash drive with this utility: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/f...


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