start-up disk

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john brookbank

Hello All,

i have an oem version of windows xp home on my toshiba satellite. i followed
the instructions for creating a start-up disk, but when i inserted it and
the disk booted, it booted to a, naturally, but could not see c, d, e, etc.
what am i doing wrong?

the disk doesn't do anything useful at all, so how can they describe it as a
start-up disk?

any help would be appreciated,

regards,

john
 
When you boot from the floppy, assuming this was a disk you simply formatted
and made bootable it won't see NTFS drives. Even if you had fat32 drives,
what you could do would be quite limited as there are no tools on that disk.
All floppy disks are FAT formatted and as such cannot see an NTFS drive.

And, the special XP Boot disks, are meant only to facilitate installation on
computers that don't have the ability to boot from the CD-ROM drive.

If the CD that came with your system isn't bootable or only has a recovery
routine as opposed to the tools found on a retail version, it also severely
limits your recovery options. The retail version has a recovery console and
also has the option to do a repair install, both of which are quite useful.

Most OEM CDs use a proprietary recovery routine set by the manufacturer and
that generally means your only option when you have a problem includes
wiping the drive and starting over.
 
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