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Creating a win 2k boot disk

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by andrewras

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I was wondering to create a win 2k boot disk incase you have boot up problems on a workstation, is it the same as NT4, where you have to copy NTLDR, BOOT.INI, NTDETECT to a floopy disc, i know that you can make a boot disc from the CD, but this makles a set up disc for install which is not what I want

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by thechas

A better thing to do for W2K and XP, is to use the recovery console and create a restore point disk.

This will allow you to recover the system to a know configuration.

You should create a new restore point after any software installation, or major software update.

Alternately, you can create a bootable floppy from the floppy format menu, and copy the files that you want to be able to restore.

Chas

by joseph moore

Yes, you are correct. The Win2K boot disk does include those 3 files -- NTDETECT, BOOT.INI & NTLDR -- just make sure you get them from either the Win2K CD or another Win2K machine. Don't use the NT4 versions.
And make sure the BOOT.INI file on the floppy has the correct ARC pathing information for the Win2K machine you want to boot.
Please read Technet article Q119467 for more details on this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q119467
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hopethis helps

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