How to make a boot disk?

How do you make a boot disk (start up). I thought I made one but when I inserted it it says starting... A:/ A:/ what goes there if any thing?? Thank You in advance Pam

This question was answered on February 4, 2003. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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In Windows 95 Microsoft has created a new method of creating a bootable recovery diskette Unfortunately however this diskette does not support CD-ROM support and is missing a few recommended files To do this click Start / Settings / Control Panel / double click the Add Remove programs icon / click the Startup Disk and create disk.

Alternatively to create a Windows 95 boot diskette manually from Windows click Start / Shutdown and choose the option to restart the computer in a MS-DOS prompt At the prompt type:

cd\windows\command

Once at the C:\DOS directory skip to copying files.

An excellent feature of Windows 98/ME is its boot diskette Using Windows to create you a Windows 98 boot diskette will give you all the needed files as well as CD-ROM support To create a Windows 98 boot diskette click Start / Settings / Control Panel / double click the Add Remove programs icon / click the Startup Disk and create disk.

Alternatively to create a Windows 98 boot diskette manually from Windows click Start / Shutdown and choose the option to restart the computer in a MS-DOS prompt At the prompt type:

cd\windows\command

Once at the C:\DOS directory skip to copying files.

To create a Windows 2000 Professional bootable diskette you will need four 1.44MB diskettes and the Windows 2000 Professional CD

Click Start / Run / browse to the CD-ROM drive.

Open the Boot disk folder and double-click makeboot.exe and click ok to launch the program to create the diskette

Good luck

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Posted by Suzana of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on February 4, 2003

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