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Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:00:47 -0000

sorry, davak... you're right, you can then use your xp disk, and do an "r " for repair, then you boot to the current system (usually "1")
do a chkdsk /p will 80% of the time fix the boot problems, if not, go through the rest of the install and there should be another opportunity to "repair" further along in the install dialoguethat works 95% of the time, but you have to redo all the updates.

good luck!

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:17:09 -0000

They are available as a file to make them from microsoft, always have been...
home edition is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/do...
pro is here:
http://www.microsoft.com/do...

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

AlexTheBeast — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:41:57 -0000

A nonbooting system could be one of a million problems. Post what type of system you have and what error messages you get... and maybe one of us can help you figure it out.

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 05:58:01 -0000

So this gets the machine to boot. And then what? How does one fix it? How does one get the machine to boot from the harddrive?

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

anon — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:47:11 -0000

if oyu want free lindows, order lindows and add a cupon with the name LINDOWS and you get it free.

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

GaSrAm — Sat, 22 May 2004 22:16:31 -0000

I cant find Bootsect.dos or Ntbootdd.sys ...

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

davak — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:14:46 -0000

Creating a boot (or any other kind of disc) from a nonbootable system is difficult.

You can try downloading a XP boot disc from the internet. Sites that offer boot discs are hit very heavy and often do not exist for free for very long. Alternatively you can find somebody else with XP system to create the boot disc for you.

Re: Make a Boot Disc for 2k or XP

nharrold@frontiernet.net — Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:24:05 -0000

"The greatest majority of the time this works. If it does not, then look for the following files in your system and copy them to your boot disc as well. "

Am I missing something here? If I can't get XP to boot, how am I going to find and copy those two additional files to the boot disc?