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dreadlord79
02-03-02, 11:00 PM
The stupid question that I have is, how do you make a boot disk off of '98 or XP? I went to M$'s website and there libraries kept sending me in circles and never answered my question! Could someone help me with this problem?
Thanks ahead of time in case I'm off line for a while (gf night have killed my home comp! :mad: ). :)
flounder43
02-03-02, 11:01 PM
I usually just go to bootdisk.com.
dreadlord79
02-03-02, 11:19 PM
I had never heard of it! Thank you for expanding my horizens! (I'm not being sarcastic Flounder43) I believe that a day that you don't learn something in is a day wasted. Thanks again! :)
TUK101
02-03-02, 11:38 PM
Go into my computer, from desktop. Then go into control panel, then add remove programs. There is a little folder icon that says *startup disk*. Hope that helps, I hope that is what you are after.
dreadlord79
02-06-02, 06:57 PM
First off, Thank You TUK101. I accually tried that first, but I am trying to update the BIOS on my ECS K7S5A mobo and have to put the flash program and the BIOS update on the same disk which just doesn't have the copacity to allow all of this. :(
OnDborder
02-07-02, 02:07 PM
Did you make your boot disk?

Another way is to insert a floppy in the drive>my computer>right click a: drive>format with the option to "copy system files".

Or "format a: /s" in dos mode.
Krieger
02-07-02, 04:39 PM
or just use dos and type "Sys c: a:"
phungilax
02-07-02, 04:52 PM
is there a reason why it tooks 6 disks to make a XP Pro bootdisk? i would think it would only take 1
Krieger
02-08-02, 09:08 AM
I know the boot disks for NT and 2000 are both 3 disks each, 6 seems a bit excessive. Unfortuantly I ahve nto had time to play with my copies of XP.
Quaky
02-09-02, 04:23 PM
Is there anyone here who knows how to make a bootable ZIP disk? I would like all my Sysadmin tools on 1 ZIP disk I can boot from. I know my BIOS supports it, but I was never able to get a bootable filesystem on a ZIP disk.

Thx in advance
Silver
02-09-02, 04:31 PM
Originally posted by OnDborder
Did you make your boot disk?

Another way is to insert a floppy in the drive>my computer>right click a: drive>format with the option to "copy system files".

Or "format a: /s" in dos mode.

And this is how I do it too.
Big Nuttz
02-10-02, 11:15 PM
Win XP you should be able to copy Ntldr, Ntdetect & Boot.ini to make a bootdisk. I know that works in Win 2000.