Creating a Boot Floppy Disk
The specific procedure varies depending a whether you have access to a Windows NT-based computer.
Creating a Boot Floppy with a Windows NT Computer
In this procedure, you will create a boot floppy by using a Windows NT-based computer.
1. Format a floppy disk by using the Windows NT format utility. For example, at the command prompt type:
format a:
2. Copy the Ntldr file from the Windows NT Setup CD-ROM, Windows NT Setup floppy disk, or from a computer that is running the same version of Windows NT as the computer that you want to access with the boot floppy. You may need to expand this file from Ntldr._ to Ntldr by using the following command line:
expand Ntldr._ Ntldr
3. Copy the Ntdetect.com file to the disk.
4. Create a Boot.ini file or copy one from a computer that is running Windows NT and modify it to match the computer that you are trying to access. The following example will work for a single partition SCSI drive with Windows NT installed under \WINNT, but the exact value in the [operating systems] section depends on the configuration of the Windows NT computer that you are trying to access:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
Default= scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt
[operating systems]
scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt="Windows NT"
If your computer starts from an IDE, EIDE, or ESDI hard drive, replace the scsi(0) with multi(0). If you are using scsi(x) in the Boot.ini, copy the correct device driver for the SCSI controller in use on the computer and rename it NTBOOTDD.SYS. If you are using multi(x) in the Boot.ini, you do not need to do this.
5. Start your computer by using the floppy disk, and then log on to Windows NT.