Boot disk for window 2000

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You should be able to boot it from the original installation CD. Check your
BIOS for settings that allow booting from the CD ROM drive.

Bill Crocker
 
For the floppy to successfully boot Windows NT/2000 the disk must contain
the "NT" boot sector. Format a diskette (on an NT machine, not a DOS/Win9x,
so the NT boot sector gets written to the floppy), then copy ntldr,
ntdetect.com, and boot.ini to it; and possibly ntbootdd.sys. Edit the
boot.ini to give it a correct ARC path for the machine you wish to boot.


Else if you meant a dos disk, you can boot a Win98 startup disk or navigate
to;
\VALUEADD\3RDPARTY\CA_ANTIV\
on your Windows 2000 install CD-Rom and execute makedisk.bat or
www.bootdisk.com


Else if you wanted setup disks, the set of four install disks can be created
from your Win2k CD-rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the cd-rom and
execute makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.
 
How do i make a boot disk for windows 2000
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This is long, please read the whole thing:

There are three different disk that are often called "boot disks" used
for Windows 2000:

1. A set of 4 diskettes used for starting Windows 2000 Setup.
2. A single boot disk that will start your Windows 2000 installation if
your boot sector becomes damaged.
3. A single DOS boot disk that can be used to flash your BIOS.

Which do you need?

If 1. Insert your Win2k CD in any PC running DOS or WIN9x or WIN2k,
browse to the "BOOTDISK" directory and type "MAKEBOOT.EXE".

If 2. Format a blank floppy and copy boot.ini, ntldr and ntdetect.com
on to the floppy.

If 3. Insert your Win3K CD and browse to the VALUEADD/3RDPARTY/CA_ANITV
directory and run the program MAKEDISK.BAT which will create a bootable
floppy with Antivirus files to check your boot sector. Just add the
necessary BIOS flashing files to the disk (you may have to delete the
antivirus program to have enough room).

You might as well get yourself 6 floppies and do them all, sooner or
later you might need them!

Hope this helps?
 
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