booting vista from floppy help

[Mark Ryan]

my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update
i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots
from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run, it just
keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry. any ideas would be
great. seems as vista does not like booting from floppys. would i need to
boot with a another version of windows startup disc then swap discs at the
dos prompt??
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[David B.]

I answered your identical post in the Hardware forum, if you feel you must
post to more than one group, please cross post, do not multi post, see my
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[Dustin Harper]

You would need a boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) to boot from, then switch
floppies to your WD disk and run the program.

Vista doesn't have anything to do with it. It starts to boot from the floppy
before Windows is even touched. It has to have something to boot to, since
Windows isn't going to load. So, that's the purpose of the boot disk (Try
Windows 98 boot disk, easy and quick).

 

[Don]

my western digital sata hard drive clicks now and again, there is an update
i have downloaded to rectify this problem from western digital which boots
from a floppy, i have tried to run it on my laptop but it wont run, it just
keeps saying remove discs and press any button to retry...

Are you sure it's a bootable floppy disc? i.e. did you format the
floppy yourself, using the 'create an MS DOS startup disk' option?