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problem booting BeOs with XP help !!!!
Name: Michel Date: June 20, 2002 at 14:49:55 Pacific
Comment:
hi,
i have downloading BeOs 5.1 personal edition. i have making a floppy boot, but when i launght my computer, the boot disk (floppy), go, and can find the "image" on my hard disk "c:\BeOs"... i answer booting on cdrom !!! :o((((
it's a problem with windows XP family edition??? can help-me please !!!!
many thant's from michel regards!
casabonne.michel@free.fr ( in english, or in french (it'better) ;o)
Name: Luke McCarthy Date: June 20, 2002 at 15:56:51 Pacific
Reply:
If you have XP pre-loaded then it is most likely that your drive is formatted as NTFS. A boot floppy cannot read this type of file system. You will need to create a FAT or FAT32 partition to put your BeOS folder into.
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Response Number 2
Name: Luke McCarthy Date: June 20, 2002 at 16:00:24 Pacific
Reply:
This is the same reason I won't convert to NTFS yet - I do not trust Windows, but I do trust my old faithful DOS boot disc, it has saved me on MANY occasions. I added CD-ROM and mouse drivers to it to make it more useful :¬)
I use BeOS too, I recently got it working on my network, I have been using BeMail ever since.
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