Actually, I found a cdrw and can use that. --- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor
----- Original Message ----- From: "dave walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy > DOS doesn't recognize NTFS partitions. Checkout > http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ . > BartPE helps you generate a boot CD that will give you access to the hard > disk. > Load DriveImageXML into the BartPE image and do a raw backup over the > network, or to a different hard drive if you want to save an image of > everything as it is now. > > -Dave Walton > > On Jan 3, 2008 2:02 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin (CAT) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, got this computer that runs xp that has been screwing up now wont >> boot because its missing a file. OK, no big deal I think. I will make a >> boot disk an copy the file in from dos and see what happens. Wrong. >> Computer boots up but will not let me switch to the partition I need to >> get to the windows directory. The computer in question appears to have >> some sort of restore files on the C partition, and the rest on D. The >> reason the file is missing is because I tried to do the compaq restore >> thing and it crashed and didnt work now it wont boot. So I wanted to go >> in and put whatever is missing and see what happens. Next step is to >> just wipe everything out and do a fresh install. Why cant I switch to >> the D partition with my boot disk? Is there something that should be on >> there that I am forgetting about? I have not messed around with this >> stuff in a while and have forgot more about dos that what most people >> today probably know. >> >> --- >> Kaleb C. Striplin >> Cox Auto Trader >> 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ >> For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
