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May 27th, 2008 20:00
Start up disk for windows 2000 professional
i def need a little help here.
I need to make a startup disk for my win 2k professional. I've tried several times and since there is no floppy drive avail, it will not allow me to make one. any ideas?
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Skybird
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May 27th, 2008 22:00
a floppy disc?
luther.haynes
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May 28th, 2008 12:00
The reason is because I had a problem getting the computer to boot up. I do not have a startup disk when the computer was reset. When I had a stop error and several other errors, I could not get the computer to start in safe mode or otherwise. When I reset with the sp4 disk, i've tried to run a repair using the 2000 windows pref sp4 disk and could not repair the computer. I had to completely wipe the c drive clean, losing all of my data. I had most of the programs already on disk but some of the others, i had to get off the web. Now I have all of the programs on disk, but when the computer "crashes" I have no way to restart the computer. The only other way that I can think of is to "reset" the computer and start all over again. Which I have done 4 times. The computer that I have is a dell latitude cpi, only a 40gb c drive, cd-rom and battery pack, no floppy drive. What I actually need is an emergency repair disk with a dos boot in case the computer was to try and crash on me again. In the bios settings, I can change the start up from hdd, cd, pci slot, usb and others, but I do not have a dos disk for it. It burned in a fire with the trendnet wlan and lan card install utilities.
Skybird
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May 28th, 2008 14:00
Check this site for boot discs ...............
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
I ran across this if you need the startup on a CD ..............
http://www.codeguru.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-188437.html
luther.haynes
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May 29th, 2008 13:00
Skybird, you rock! Thank you very much!
The info came in very handy.
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May 29th, 2008 14:00