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Originally posted by Naughty
this is for a Win2000 box, does the ME bootdisk work for that too?
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When booting from a floppy or CD it doesn't matter what O/S is
installed on the hard drive, the machine is booting from the floppy
and all info for booting comes from the floppy and the bios chip
on the motherboard.
You have to make sure in your bios that the floppy disk (A:) is the
first boot device in "boot priority". Set bios boot priority to
A,CD-ROM,C
or some bios say
Floppy, CD-ROM, C
You have to have the floppy set as first boot device before a comp
will read it to boot when inserted into the floppy drive. Once the flash
is complete and you've removed the floppy and rebooted then since
your running Win<i></i>dow<i></i>s 2000 you should reset the
bios boot priority to
CD-ROM,C,A
or
CD-ROM,C,Floppy
For Win<i></i>dow<i></i>s XP and Win<i></i>dow<i></i>s 2000 you need
the CD-ROM as first boot device because when your O/S fucks up
you need to boot from the O/S CD to be able to run repair functions
like the recovery console and O/S repair installs ect.
That way if your Win<i></i>dow<i></i>s XP/2000 ever fucks up you
just insert the O/S CD and reboot and the comp will automatically show
you a prompt on the boot up screen saying
To boot from CD press any key and 5 dots will count off
and you have to press a key on the keyboard before the fifth dot displays
otherwise the comp will just go on booting from the hard drive.
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That link to the bootme.exe doesn't work.
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Go here
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and download
from the
hahahahahahas Me OEM link.