AS long as the machine still has a floppy drive, it is always
possible to boot from floppy to a command prompt Whether or not you
can access your hard drives from there depends on your file system. A
dos boot disk cannot read drives partitioned in ntfs unless a special
utility for reading fat partitions is being used. If the partitions
are in fat32, they can be read - and then it is also possible to
install a standalone dos that can be booted to via a boot loader.
hth
Doris
At 02:40 PM 1/16/2006 +0000, you wrote:
Hi Billy
I don't think you can with XP. I heard it was discontinued when XP was launched
Roger
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