Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-05 Thread dave walton
@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:18 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy I guess I am stupid, I have tried the repair deal and I never can figure out how to use it. --- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor - Original Message

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-05 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin
@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy Hi Kaleb, It's been a while since I tried it, but IIRC, when the XP Install window opens, you get a choice of Installing, Repairing or Uninstalling. It's been a while. You're probaby just

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-04 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin, work
@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 6:30 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy Hi Kaleb, It's been a while since I tried it, but IIRC, when the XP Install window opens, you get a choice of Installing, Repairing or Uninstalling. It's been a while. You're probaby

[MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin (CAT)
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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Allan Streib
If the D: partition is NTFS, DOS does not understand that. You need to boot into something that understands NTFS, perhaps Knoppix? Or boot off an XP install CD and see if there's some way to repair or get into a command prompt. Allan Kaleb C. Striplin \(CAT\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK,

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread dave walton
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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin, work
PROTECTED] To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy If the D: partition is NTFS, DOS does not understand that. You need to boot into something that understands NTFS, perhaps Knoppix? Or boot off an XP

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin, work
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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin, work
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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread dave walton
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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Knoble
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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin, work
, January 03, 2008 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy 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

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Fmiser
It seems than at Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:10:26 -0500, Allan wrote: If the D: partition is NTFS, DOS does not understand that. You need to boot into something that understands NTFS, perhaps Knoppix? Or boot off an XP install CD and see if there's some way to repair or get into a command prompt.

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread LarryT
5:18 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy I guess I am stupid, I have tried the repair deal and I never can figure out how to use it. --- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor - Original Message - From: Rick Knoble [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread dave walton
: Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy I guess I am stupid, I have tried the repair deal and I never can figure out how to use it. --- Kaleb C. Striplin Cox Auto Trader 730-Tulsa FSBO Supervisor - Original Message - From: Rick Knoble [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] OT booting from a floppy

2008-01-03 Thread Rick Knoble
You have to first select that you want to install windows. It then looks for an existing installation and prompts you to repair it. I've been warned that the Home Edition of XP does not let you run a Repair, XP Pro does. I've not tried it with home, so I can't say for sure. That is correct.