Re: [WinMac] DOS bootable floppy in Windows NT?

Tim Scoff(tscoff[at]pitt.edu)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:07:00 -0500

Unfortunately it can't be done. You have to do it on a Windows 95 or DOS
computer. NT can not make a bootable floppy that does anything other than
boot into the NT installer.

--On Friday, August 20, 1999, 12:43 PM -0500 Tom Roth <tomroth@wfubmc.edu>
wrote:r

> How do you make a DOS bootable floppy in Windows NT? I've got a BIOS
> update to perform and it says to boot to DOS. This is a Windows NT
> machine. There is no DOS. And the old format commands such as format
> a: /s don't work anymore. If I type format /? from the command line it
> reveals a number of options but none of them include a DOS bootable disk.
>

Tim Scoff
casper@nb.net

"Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this
kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place."

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