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06-07-2005, 11:33 AM
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Startup floppy
 Hello people I guess I am totally into full fledge CRAFT I was trying to make a copy of a boot up floppy all goes well ,check same number of files etc,,,,but I keep getting the error mesage NTLR file missing when trying to boot off the new floppy old one works fine I could of sworn I have done this a milloion times???? confused in PA Thanks all AL
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06-07-2005, 12:43 PM
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Why not just use the OS to create another boot disk?
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06-07-2005, 12:47 PM
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I am running WIN2K ? don't recall being able to do that in that OS
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06-07-2005, 01:12 PM
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Insert the Windows 2000 CD in drive, go to Start, Run, enter D:\bootdisk\makebt32 a: where D: is your CD-ROM drive.
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06-07-2005, 01:25 PM
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Okay but why can't I copy the one I have ,its from WIN98
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06-07-2005, 02:09 PM
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Did you try to copy a second time?
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06-07-2005, 03:06 PM
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Tried a whole bunch of times I don't understand it
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06-07-2005, 04:46 PM
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Are you coping to the hard drive first or are you using diskcopy?
One little bitty spec of dust on the original floppy could be the cause. I would go to www.bootdisk.com and grab one of theirs. |
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06-07-2005, 05:35 PM
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Well I found I have a few copies of startup,what I have done is copied different floppy's to HD . Set up a folder called (startup) then after formatting a floppy I try to copy from (startup) to floppy it copies okay but if I try to boot off of one of the floppy's I get the NTLDR error????????
Last edited by Al Pollock; 06-07-2005 at 05:39 PM. |
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06-08-2005, 12:15 AM
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I'm not sure, but aren't some of those required files system or hidden files? Have you checked the folder properties to see that hidden files are being displayed? Maybe the W2K environment is missing those when you're copying over. Just a thought.
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06-08-2005, 05:53 AM
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Have hidden files shown ,I dont understand I know I have made copies of the startup floppy before and its actually doing it ,it's just that they won't boot I get that missing NTLDR message?????
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06-08-2005, 08:09 AM
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Just for grins, go to the link I posted above and get one of their Win98 bootdisk files and see if you can boot from it.
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06-08-2005, 01:54 PM
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What's your goal? Are you trying to boot the W2K box from the 98 boot disk? Does 98 even use the NTLDR boot loader? I thought that was just for NT based systems.
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06-09-2005, 09:26 AM
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My goal was just to make a couple of copies of 98 boot up disk for formatting ,fdisk etc..troubleshooting.............went to the bootdisk site and found it to be very helpfull and was able to get boot up disk'a made ...But I am still puzzled about my original problem.
Thank's all AL |
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06-09-2005, 10:03 AM
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When coping to and from the hard drive, Popping the floppy out one fraction of a second too soon could cause the problem.
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06-09-2005, 11:27 AM
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I will try that although I was aware of that and waited patiently
AL |
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06-09-2005, 03:12 PM
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I copy bootdisks with 2K all the time, at the command prompt (NOT the Run box).
diskcopy a: a: Follow the prompts. |
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