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by kbwoynatl

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How can I boot a Windows XP PC to a command prompt from a floppy? Booting in safe mode with command prompt does not work.

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by carlos.nino

Does it have to be an XP boot disk?. Try a Win98/2000 boot disk, it will work depending on what you want to do with it.

by jschein

best solution would be to slave it to a 98 or 2000 machine. with 98 you would need to install the ntfs file recognition system which is free and on the web, 2000, just add the drive and remove files.

by kbwoynatl

The Partition on the Win XP PC is NTFS and the other boot disks will not allow me to view my C: drive. I need to access the C: drive and remove a few files.

by thechas

The problem is that DOS does not recognize a NTFS volume.

To remove files from a NTFS volume, I recommend mounting the drive as a slave or secondary drive on another working PC with Windows 2000 or XP.

There is a DOS NTFS reader utility at www.systeminternals.com
However, I believe it is a read only tool.

Have you tried booting from your XP CD and running the recovery console?

Another option would be to try the Ultimate Boot CD:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Chas

by thechas

Since your goal is to remove a few files, there is another option.

Do you have access to another PC running Windows XP or 2000?

If so, temporarily mount your hard drive as a slave in the other system and use Windows Explorer to access the drive and delete the problem files.

Great way to remove virus infected files.

I use a "hot-swap" bay on my main PC for this and other similar drive maintenance tasks.

Chas

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