[pchelpers] Re: Question about boot disk


  Inge, 
       To use a floppy to boot up generally requires that you know a little 
about the DOS command line commands.  The Bios can be generally displayed by 
pressing the F8 key on boot up. On some computers it is F1 or ESC  etc. 
       I just built a boot diskette and put three files on it
boot.ini
ntldr
ntdetect.com 
    None of the other two were available. My system is Windows XP and it is 
built on NTFS Drives. I do not know if that has any bearing on it but it just 
boots to the DOS A:\ promt and sits there. There is no effort to even try to 
bring up windows form the hard drive. 
    If you indicate where you got the information from I could look at it and 
maybe help but as it is, the process does not work for me on this system. 

    Cy
    


-- "Inge" <inge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does that mean that I have to put the files on a CD? 



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