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Re: How do you make a boot disk?

Posted by Emre on 1999-08-12

>I had a thought cross my mind the other day.
>(scary)  How do you make a boot disk?

In DOS computers, you can type "format a: /s" to format a disk with the
system files, ready to boot from, even for computers without the OS.
In Windows 95/98 you go to control pannel, add/remove programs, and there
is a tab there to allow you to make a Startup Disk. You can use that, and
it makes a boot disk which can boot your computer.

In all cases, you have to set the computer's bios to search floppy disk for
boot info first. 

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Emre Yucel              
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