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| Thread ID: 51989 | 2004-12-06 18:35:00 | Near miss... | simonc (2694) | Press F1 |
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| 300088 | 2004-12-06 18:35:00 | Arriving home yesterday, I noticed my desktop screen was in the safe mode boot up screen....Needless to say my heart skipped a beat and various thoughts ran through my head ( the main one being "oh s**t") After many reboots, it is up and running again, and I am now downloading the XP boot disk from MS. I have a problem where MS says I need 6 floppies to copy the file to. After scrabbling around I have come up with 5. Can I use a W98 single boot disk on XP Pro? I can go out and get another disk, but I am half Dutch and don't really want to buy another disk. OR...is it OK to burn the expanded files to a CD and boot from there. I have checked BIOS and it will not run a USB device first (damn!) Any thoughts gratefully recieved... XP Pro Athlon 1800 256mb Ram SP1 (don't want the huge d/l to SP2) Thanks |
simonc (2694) | ||
| 300089 | 2004-12-06 19:11:00 | > Can I use a W98 single boot disk on XP Pro? Yes, but you probably won't be able to read your hard drive if it is NTFS |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 300090 | 2004-12-06 19:16:00 | alternatively if you have it you can simply boot from the xp cd...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 300091 | 2004-12-06 19:27:00 | Thanks, Drive is FAT, so should be OK there... Errr...I appear to have mislaid my XP CD... I am sure I had one.... Si |
simonc (2694) | ||
| 300092 | 2004-12-07 00:37:00 | Buy a box of floppies. ;-) You are probably wasting your time with floppies you have "raked up". Boot disks really need to be perfect. I prefer to format them on the machine they are to be used on, too. If there are any bad blocks, I won't use them as boot disks. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 300093 | 2004-12-07 01:03:00 | You might be able to get a NTFS aware boot disk from www.bootdisk.com | thewhiz (4002) | ||
| 300094 | 2004-12-07 04:30:00 | >but I am half Dutch and don't really want to buy another disk. I don't get it... |
Growly (6) | ||
| 300095 | 2004-12-07 04:34:00 | Growly, refer to Monday Laughs. | theotherone (1421) | ||
| 300096 | 2004-12-07 08:48:00 | > Growly, refer to Monday Laughs. :^O |
Susan B (19) | ||
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