make boot floppy

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using a w2k sp4 server machine , is it possible to make a bootable floppy
for an xp home machine?

alternatively, using a wxp pro sp1 machine , is it possible to do the same ?
 
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using a w2k sp4 server machine , is it possible to make a bootable
floppy for an xp home machine?

alternatively, using a wxp pro sp1 machine , is it possible to do
the same ?
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First define "bootable floppy"
* Bootable OS setup floppy diskettes
* Bootable (to DOS) diskette
* a system boot floppy that starts the process of booting the OS from
the hard disk
 
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.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

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| using a w2k sp4 server machine , is it possible to make a bootable floppy
| for an xp home machine?
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| alternatively, using a wxp pro sp1 machine , is it possible to do the same
?
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using a w2k sp4 server machine , is it possible to make a bootable floppy
for an xp home machine?

alternatively, using a wxp pro sp1 machine , is it possible to do the same ?
Click to expand...

In XP (at least the Pro version) you can "Create an MS-DOS startup
disk" by right-clicking on the drive in Explorer and running the
"Format..." applet. Look under "Format Options".

Can anyone verify this functionality in XP Home?

Clay Calvert
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Replace "W" with "L"
 
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