A Windows Boot Disk operates in DOS command line mode.
If you have a USB drive and your BIOS supports booting from a USB device then try that.
In Windows, press F8 during booting.. You will find a menu in which you will fine an option - "Safe Mode in DOS Prompt".. Enter in that menu, you will boot from DOS Prompt.. In Windows 98, you will find the "Boot from DOS prompt".. You can select that option to boot from DOS..
The word "boot" or "booting" comes from the concept of bootstrapping, or pulling oneself up by the bootstraps. Before PC's, computer operators would run a program called the bootstrap loader. This loader did the initialization that is now automatic. The process became known as bootstrapping and later booting.
Yes you can, when the computer is booting up open the boot menu and choose the external as your boot device, i have a external hard drive with Ubuntu on it and do exactly that, I'm sure it can work with windows.
There are no boot floppies for Windows Vista. To install Windows Vista, computers must support either booting from a DVD or over a network.
Find a computer where you can add a password in the bios. Doing so, you can setup your bios to boot from hard drive first before booting from the DVD drive. No windows install DVD will be able to re install windows since the hard drive will boot first.Then, in windows, setup you account as admin and add a password for it if there is no password. Setup a guest account for other windows users. That's it.
its called a "boot-up"
The following booting files are required to start Windows XP: NTLDR, Boot.ini, and Ntdetect.com. The following files are optional when starting Windows XP: Ntbootdd.sys and Bootsect.dos. The following files are required to start Windows 7/Vista: Bootmgr (Windows Boot Manager) and BCD (Boot Configuration Data).
Windows can't pick up any virus' hence why we have anti-virus, even if it could while any PC is booting it has a sequence, booting up different hardware then software at different points so it's possible it will boot up the floppy disk drive but not read it.
You need to change boot options in your BIOS, when booting the computer hit the F2 key several times and the BIOS screen will load. You then find the setting where you enable boot from CD drive and save the setting. .
To do this, you must boot from the Windows 7 disc or USB thumb drive. To do this, enter your BIOS, which can usually be done by pressing Delete or F8 when it is booting, or if you have a Dell by changing the boot priority right on the startup screen. After this, hot the reboot button and it should take you right into the Windows 7 setup. Make sure after this is done, you change the boot priority back to your hard drive first.
When it finishes booting. (Starting Windows\Mac OSX\Linux\Other)