Barry,
Thanks. I am speaking strictly of an EBD. If she wants to later deal with
Norton or an AV startup disk, that's up to her. At this point, if the
laptop I sent to her goes down, and if she must use a startup disk to bring
it back up, she cannot create one because she does not have the Win98SE CD
that the program now requires to create a startup disk. What she does have
are the original restore/reformat CDs provided by Toshiba which would take
her back to birth, and she would lose what is on the laptop at the time of a
crash. We hope she won't have to resort to that if she has an EBD (which
she is prevented from creating since I have the Win98SE CD).
Elaine
Below is my original post:
I sent a laptop to someone which I had upgraded to Win98SE so it would match
my desktop. I sent her an older boot disk which I had made. She wanted to
create a new boot disk for security if the original floppy were to fail.
The laptop's original programming was Win95.
I have the Win98SE disk because my main computer uses that and the laptop
was used as an occasional traveler and has since been replaced by a newer
laptop (ME).
When she attempted to create a new startup disk she was told to insert the
CD. Well, of course, I have the CD and am not about to part with it since I
bought it, it is mine, and I want it for my main computer.
Is there a way to get around the need for the Win98SE disk and create a
startup disk using the Windows program, or must she manually create an EBD?
And, if she must manually create an EBD, could someone give me good
instructions to pass on to her?
>
> Clint! I think that Elaine is referring to an"EBD" as an Emergency Boot
> Disk. So either she is confusing the Rescue Boot Disk from Norton et al
or
> the only thing close to this anagram is the ERD in NT and Win 2k. I have
> been following the thread from the beginning and don't know what the
> problem is at present.
>
> Unless her friend has a special edition to Win98 then any boot disk with
> the proper files on it should get her up and going. I had a SCSI Boot
disk
> for Win98 for my Win95 machine for 3 years and it has all the files
> including my SCSI drivers of course.
>
> Barry ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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