Lang
Mon Apr 07 23:19:30 PDT 2008
"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:urlPopZkIHA.5396@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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> "Lang Murphy" <lang_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:89D20A14-FFA1-4A80-B4F1-5E57A20E8667@microsoft.com...
>> "Michael" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
>> news:O7LhyUVkIHA.5080@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> > the floppy has XP
>> >
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>> Uh... what? Never heard of a bootable XP floppy. Most likely, you have a
> DOS
>> bootable diskette with drivers to access FAT32 and/or NTFS disks.
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>> What errors are you getting when you try to boot from the disk?
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>> Lang
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>> >>
>> >> What OS does the floppy have on it?
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>> >> -Frank
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> If you format a floppy on an XP machine then copy over the "boot" files
> ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini the floppy will boot you right into XP
> .
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> Since Vista uses a different boot loader that boot floppy cannot work for
> booting into Vista
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>
Well... I guess we'll have to agree to disagree... loading the files you
list on a floppy will let you read/write to an NTFS disk, but by no means is
one -really- running XP after booting from such a floppy.
The MS KB article that discloses what you've listed above states: "This
step-by-step article describes how to create a bootable floppy disk for
Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an
Intel-processor-based computer."
If one considers that "booted into XP" then I guess one is booted into XP. I
do not consider that functionality the same as "booting into XP."
Viva la difference.
Lang