Can't boot from floppy anymore

I have a dual boot system with XP and Vista and I can't boot from a floppy
anymore. This happened after I installed Vista. Does this have something to
do with BCDEdit? Anyway I can fix this? I already have "boot from a floppy"
enabled in BIOS.

"Michael" <> wrote in message
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>I have a dual boot system with XP and Vista and I can't boot from a floppy
>anymore. This happened after I installed Vista. Does this have something to
>do with BCDEdit? Anyway I can fix this? I already have "boot from a floppy"
>enabled in BIOS.
>

What OS does the floppy have on it?

-Frank

the floppy has XP

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> What OS does the floppy have on it?
>
> -Frank

"Michael" <> wrote in message
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> the floppy has XP
>

Uh... what? Never heard of a bootable XP floppy. Most likely, you have a DOS
bootable diskette with drivers to access FAT32 and/or NTFS disks.

What errors are you getting when you try to boot from the disk?

Lang

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>> What OS does the floppy have on it?
>>
>> -Frank
>
>

Check the BIOS and put the Floppy as the 1st boot device to check.

"Michael" <> wrote in message
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>I have a dual boot system with XP and Vista and I can't boot from a floppy
>anymore. This happened after I installed Vista. Does this have something to
>do with BCDEdit? Anyway I can fix this? I already have "boot from a floppy"
>enabled in BIOS.
>

Here's some insight from those who dared:

http://www.msfn.org/board/Vista-Boot-Disk-t95092.html

"Michael" <> wrote in message
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> the floppy has XP
>
>>
>> What OS does the floppy have on it?
>>
>> -Frank
>
>

"Lang Murphy" <> wrote in message
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> "Michael" <> wrote in message
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> > the floppy has XP
> >
>
> Uh... what? Never heard of a bootable XP floppy. Most likely, you have a
DOS
> bootable diskette with drivers to access FAT32 and/or NTFS disks.
>
> What errors are you getting when you try to boot from the disk?
>
> Lang
>
> >>
> >> What OS does the floppy have on it?
> >>
> >> -Frank
> >
> >
>
>

If you format a floppy on an XP machine then copy over the "boot" files
ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini the floppy will boot you right into XP .

Since Vista uses a different boot loader that boot floppy cannot work for
booting into Vista

that did the trick. I never had to do that before I installed Vista. Looks
like that BCD loads very early in the boot process


"Spirit" <> wrote in message
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> Check the BIOS and put the Floppy as the 1st boot device to check.
>

"philo" <> wrote in message
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> "Lang Murphy" <> wrote in message
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>> "Michael" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> > the floppy has XP
>> >
>>
>> Uh... what? Never heard of a bootable XP floppy. Most likely, you have a
> DOS
>> bootable diskette with drivers to access FAT32 and/or NTFS disks.
>>
>> What errors are you getting when you try to boot from the disk?
>>
>> Lang
>>
>> >>
>> >> What OS does the floppy have on it?
>> >>
>> >> -Frank
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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> If you format a floppy on an XP machine then copy over the "boot" files
> ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini the floppy will boot you right into XP
> .
>
> Since Vista uses a different boot loader that boot floppy cannot work for
> booting into Vista
>
>


Well... I guess we'll have to agree to disagree... loading the files you
list on a floppy will let you read/write to an NTFS disk, but by no means is
one -really- running XP after booting from such a floppy.

The MS KB article that discloses what you've listed above states: "This
step-by-step article describes how to create a bootable floppy disk for
Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an
Intel-processor-based computer."

If one considers that "booted into XP" then I guess one is booted into XP. I
do not consider that functionality the same as "booting into XP."

Viva la difference.

Lang

philo wrote:

>> If you format a floppy on an XP machine then copy over the "boot" files
>> ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini the floppy will boot you right
>> into XP .


Lang Murphy wrote:

> Well... I guess we'll have to agree to disagree... loading the files you
> list on a floppy will let you read/write to an NTFS disk, but by no
> means is one -really- running XP after booting from such a floppy.
>
> The MS KB article that discloses what you've listed above states: "This
> step-by-step article describes how to create a bootable floppy disk for
> Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an
> Intel-processor-based computer."
>
> If one considers that "booted into XP" then I guess one is booted into
> XP. I do not consider that functionality the same as "booting into XP."

Gee, it takes one minute to make an NT boot floppy and boot the computer
with it, why not make one and try it then come back here and tell us the
results!

John