however, the boot floppy that it makes is an MS-DOS disk. You cannot boot with this disk and then view files on an NTFS volume. the NTFS disks to the floppy, or to any FAT 16 hard disks that you might ...

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

If your computer begins displaying the message, "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" or "No system disk," it means that the PC cannot start because it cannot find the operating ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

Sooner or later, every XP user faces the moment when he or she needs to access a system in a low-level maintenance mode to fix some kind of problem with the operating system itself. Perhaps the system ...

Alas, the days when Windows came with a program for creating a useful emergency bootfloppy are long gone. And those old boot floppies wouldn’t help with XP orVista–even if you PC had a floppy drive.

Windows XP takes up relatively little space on a hard drive and uses fewer system resources than recent versions of Windows. For computers with limited memory and processing power as well as no ...

I have this Windows XP Home computer that won't boot(displays a blue screen instead of a login) after installing SP2. I'm going to reinstall Windows, but I need to ...

There is a certain modified ntoskrnl.exe that I have recently downloaded which I would like to be the default boot screen when XP is installed. If I copy that ntoskrnl.exe file into the i386 folder ...