On 1 Oct 2006 at 12:57, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 12:47 PM wrote: > > >Where, exactly, does Windows require a floppy disk? > > When you need to do emergency boot.
Since when? I haven't done a floppy disk boot (intentionally) in ages. I always do emergency boots from the Windows CD, in order to use the command console and recovery tools. > Seriously, I'd love to know how to create bootable Win32 CDR with > applications (but not DOS) of your choice such as maintenance tools. > Any pointer would be appreciated. For emergency recovery, there are too things to do: 1. install the command console on your Windows system drive (this allows emergency recovery without the CD, as long as the hard drive is working, if not bootable into Windows). 2. boot from the Windows installation CD. This has been the case for, oh, five years at least -- since it became completely common for all PCs to be able to boot from CD. Nowadays you can also boot from USB drives. > This is my biggest problem with PC. I can't boot off FW drive. For > Mac, I carry emergency 2.5" FW/USB drive which boots into any Mac. Firewire is a Sony/Apple technology and simply not well-supported elsewhere (because it's a closed technology). USB drives are bootable with newer BIOSes. All Dells allow it these days. Seems to me you're just behind the times, which is pretty typical of those who criticize both Windows and Mac. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
