On 2 Oct 2006 at 0:16, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2006/10/01 / 04:06 PM wrote: > > >None of the machines you describe should need a boot floppy. Maybe > >you just don't know how to use the Windows installation disk and the > >command console. > > You are correct, David. I don't know how to launch CLI from Win2K > installer disk. I just tried it, and it has no such option.
The command console should be one of the repair options. The CD should boot by default to the re-install/repair/run command console prompt. And the command console is a command prompt that gives you full access to all the disk drives (if they haven't failed in hardware, of course). > How do > you launch CLI from Win2K installer disk? Command console from the prompt that's given you. It can run from the CD or it can be installed on the hard drive so you can get a boot menu without the CD to run the command console at boot instead of booting the GUI. > And you are saying I can > launch win32 apps from there as the same as you launch from Win2K? No, I never said that. > And I can remove Win2K installer disk to access backup image from a > DVD-R? That I don't know. If you install the command console on the hard drive, you can activate the boot menu with F8 during boot and then boot to the command prompt and then insert any CD or DVD that's readable by the command prompt environment (I have no idea if DVDs are supported by the command console). But if those require a Win32 app, then that isn't going to work. > Oh, wait, to restore image to C:, I can launch application, PQDI on > the C: drive. What is my alternative? On my Mac, I just boot off a > backup drive which is bootable, and restore image in no time. What do > you do on PC? All the imaging software I've ever used provides a non-GUI command prompt utility to restore images without needing to boot the GUI. > I have been doing this with Floppy disks, including > swapping floppy many, many times. Very time consuming. If there is > one DVD solution, I'd jump on it. I don't have a DVD drive and doubt that there is, since DVD support is still provided in software and not in the base OS installation. Which is stupid, of course. -- 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
