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Boot up disk & start from DOS

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by mak15

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How can I create WINDOW2000Pro bootup disk and how can I startup from DOS? I tried d:\bootdisk\makeboot a: , In the CD, it doesn't even have bootdisk folder. Thanks for your help!

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by thechas

Do you want a startup disk for installing W2K?
Or a DOS boot disk?

For a DOS boot disk, choose the A drive from My Computer, right click, and choose format.
Check the box to copy system files.

There is a number of boot disk images for various senarious at www.bootdisk.com

Chas

by salochin

You appear to be requesting conflicting things.
The Windows 2000 Pro 'makeboot' feature is usually for making a set of installation boot disks to be used when the 'Boot from CDROM' in your BIOS doesn't work or is unavailable. The disks aren't for booting to DOS. For this, you will need to go to the bootdisk site (see TheChas reply for details). It would be useful for you to expand on your question by giving a desired endpoint.

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