shouldn't a boot disk always work?

This is a discussion about shouldn't a boot disk always work? in the Windows Hardware category; Well i am running windows 2000 but recently decided it would be worth the hasle to reformat my ntfs partition and dual boot my computer so that i could load some of my more incompatable applications on to windows 98 and still use 2000 if desired.

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Well i am running windows 2000 but recently decided it would be worth the hasle to reformat my ntfs partition and dual boot my computer so that i could load some of my more incompatable applications on to windows 98 and still use 2000 if desired. now before formating i tried my boot disk... and it didn't work. i tried a boot disk from a friend and it also didn't work. they both have the io.sys and the msdos.sys and the command.com so shouldn't the computer boot to the A ;( i don't know of anysetting anywhere that i could change that would affect this. If anyone actually reads this and has any clue please let me know!

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Make sure the bios is looking to the floppy drive first. Your system is probably looking to the hard drive, trying to boot, missing the floppy sys files entirely.
 
Hope that helps,
 
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Did you change the setting in the bios to boot from floppy?

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yes i did change the bios and it reads the disk and says that it is a non system disk but i have had someone else try the exact same files on there computer and it works fine.

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could it be that the actual drive is bad? maybe try swapping out the drive.....
 
as an aside, please do not cross-post..... just post it once in the appropriate section and we will see it!

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I did read somewhere that enabling the W2K software RAID, like dynamic disks and striped disks makes your computer unbootdiskable(if that's such a word).
 
I think the solution was to unplug the harddrives with the offending partition and then boot with the bootdisk.
 
but then.. you didn't mention anything about dynamic or striped partitions.
 
just a thought.
 
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