F Fan924 Sep 16, 2008 #1 When booting from floppy, what file starts Windows 2000? There does not seem to be a win.com. TIA
J John John (MVP) Sep 16, 2008 #2 There are usually only 3 files on a Windows 2000 floppy boot diskette: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr Ntldr is responsible for starting the operating system. John
There are usually only 3 files on a Windows 2000 floppy boot diskette: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr Ntldr is responsible for starting the operating system. John
P Pegasus \(MVP\) Sep 16, 2008 #3 Fan924 said: When booting from floppy, what file starts Windows 2000? There does not seem to be a win.com. TIA Click to expand... Win.com is a Win98 file. It was used a looooooooooong time ago!
Fan924 said: When booting from floppy, what file starts Windows 2000? There does not seem to be a win.com. TIA Click to expand... Win.com is a Win98 file. It was used a looooooooooong time ago!
P philo Sep 17, 2008 #4 John John (MVP) said: There are usually only 3 files on a Windows 2000 floppy boot diskette: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr Ntldr is responsible for starting the operating system. John Click to expand... Yep that's right the floppy should be formatted from the machine beign used or any NT based machine (as opposed to win9x) With those three files on the floppy and the bios set to boot first from the floppy, the machine should boot right up to the GUI A good backup to have if editing the boot.ini file
John John (MVP) said: There are usually only 3 files on a Windows 2000 floppy boot diskette: Boot.ini NTDETECT.COM ntldr Ntldr is responsible for starting the operating system. John Click to expand... Yep that's right the floppy should be formatted from the machine beign used or any NT based machine (as opposed to win9x) With those three files on the floppy and the bios set to boot first from the floppy, the machine should boot right up to the GUI A good backup to have if editing the boot.ini file
