Emergendy Boot Disk fo W2K

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Help!!!! I'm trying to create an emergency boot disk for
my W2K OS. Read the help aricle at MS, which said to
format a disk in a:\, then, from the root directory c:\,
copy boot.ini, NTLDR and Ntdetect.com to the disk in a:\.
Only problem is, I can't find any of those files and it's
been way too many years since I played with DOS to
remember how to find hidden, read-only, etc., etc. files.

Can anyone explein it step by step, in layman's terms?

Thanks in advance.
Ed
 
Help!!!! I'm trying to create an emergency boot disk for
my W2K OS. Read the help aricle at MS, which said to
format a disk in a:\, then, from the root directory c:\,
copy boot.ini, NTLDR and Ntdetect.com to the disk in a:\.
Only problem is, I can't find any of those files and it's
been way too many years since I played with DOS to
remember how to find hidden, read-only, etc., etc. files.

Can anyone explein it step by step, in layman's terms?

Thanks in advance.
Ed
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After formatting:
1. Open a CMD.EXE Window.
2. Type the following commands, pressing Enter after each line:

attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini
attrib -r -s -h c:\NTLDR
attrib -r -s -h c:\Ntdetect.com
copy c:\boot.ini A:\*.*
copy c:\NTLDR A:\*.*
copy c:\Ntdetect.com A:\*.*
attrib +r +s +h c:\boot.ini
attrib +r +s +h c:\NTLDR
attrib +r +s +h c:\Ntdetect.com

3. Close the CMD.EXE Window.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
 
Hi Ed,
Ed said:
Help!!!! I'm trying to create an emergency boot disk for
my W2K OS. Read the help aricle at MS, which said to
format a disk in a:\, then, from the root directory c:\,
copy boot.ini, NTLDR and Ntdetect.com to the disk in a:\.
Only problem is, I can't find any of those files and it's
been way too many years since I played with DOS to
remember how to find hidden, read-only, etc., etc. files.

Can anyone explein it step by step, in layman's terms?
Click to expand...

in Windows Explorer, change to the root folder of drive C:.
In Tools/Folder Options change to the View Tab.
Check "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide protected operating
system files".
This should give you the ability to see the files you need to copy.
Best greetings from Germany
Olaf.
 
In said:
After formatting:
1. Open a CMD.EXE Window.
2. Type the following commands, pressing Enter after each line:

attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini
attrib -r -s -h c:\NTLDR
attrib -r -s -h c:\Ntdetect.com
copy c:\boot.ini A:\*.*
copy c:\NTLDR A:\*.*
copy c:\Ntdetect.com A:\*.*
attrib +r +s +h c:\boot.ini
attrib +r +s +h c:\NTLDR
attrib +r +s +h c:\Ntdetect.com

3. Close the CMD.EXE Window.
Click to expand...

While that would be my method as well, one might just use XCOPY with
the appopriate switches (eg "/h").

OP should look for (and copy) one additional file that *might* be
present: Ntbootdd.sys

All the files can be seen listed from CMD using DIR c:\ /a-d
 
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