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How do you determine if your system is set to boot from a CD or floppy disk?
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on startup hit f1/del/f10 to open bios, select advance setup, select boot priority/order/device, select what u want, f10, Y, ENTER. *some pc require different method.
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What is the name of a floppy disk containing enough of an operating system to boot?
Boot Disk or Boot Floppy
How would a bootable floppy disk be useful in troubleshooting?
After you make the floppy disc a boot drive (beforehand), you can use it to boot your system when you are unable to boot using your harddrive.
Does a system disk have to be a floppy disk?
No. A "system disk" is simply any disk which the computer can boot from and has an operating system installed on it. In most modern computer systems, the hard disk is normally the system disk. However most systems can also boot from a floppy disk, a cdrom, or even a USB thumb drive, providing of course that the media in question has the necessary system files on it. Many older systems did not have the ability to boot from the cdrom drive or USB drives. On these systems the only options were booting from the hard disk or floppy disk, so if the OS hadnt been installed to the hard disk yet (or it was broken) the only other option was the floppy disk.
IF The floppy drives light on when the machine is turned on?
Normally, the floppy drive light comes on so the computer can tell if there is a boot disk in there. If there is a floppy in the drive that is not a boot disk the windows will stop loading until the floppy is removed.
Why Can you use a floppy disk created in Windows XP to boot a Windows 2000 computer?
The floppy disk has nothing to do with the operating system on the hard drive. You can use a floppy disk created in Windows XP to boot a computer that has Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, etc...
What goes first a floppy disk or an CD-ROM or an hard disk?
None of them "go first." Any one of them can be selected as the first boot device in a system.
What goes first a floppy disk or an CD ROM or an hard disk?
None of them "go first." Any one of them can be selected as the first boot device in a system.
What type of viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive?
Boot sector virus
How do I reformat my computer to reinstall Windows 98 when it is telling me that I already have an operating system installed?
Use a Boot up CD or Boot up Floppy to format the C: Drive and then install ur Operating System. to create a boot floppy go to control panel -- > add and remove prog -- > the last tab (creat boot disk)
If you boot a computer with a floppy what will the computer do?
One of three things: A) boot from it B)nothing and continue as normal C)give some message saying its a non-system disk
Can you back up your windows xp system without having to use a floppy boot disk?
It coan be backed up to an type of removable drive (floppy, CD ROM, or jumpdrive).
What generates a Non-System Disk or Disk Error?
While booting, a computer looks at a number of available disks (floppies, CDs, harddisks) to see if they contain a bootable operating system. Older PCs would always boot from the harddisk, unless a floppy was present, and if that floppy didn't contain an operating system (like DOS), it would give this error message so you could remove the floppy and the computer could go on booting from the harddisk.
