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Boot Disk

Any storage disk one can use to load and run an operating system or a program on a computer. Historically, the most common boot disks have been floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Increasingly, however, flash drives are being used instead.
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I can't even create a boot disk to cope with this, since ME doesn't seem to check the floppy drive - Windows just keeps loading.
I made a copy of the boot disk; removed the AUTOEXEC.BAT file from it and added FORMAT.COM from the Windows 98 CD-ROM.
Find the original installation disks for all your applications and a boot disk (a disk that contains the operating system).
The chip is bundled with a TSR virus scanner, disk partition repair software and an emergency boot disk. Because the package responds to all suspicious activity, no virus updates are required.
These programs are placed on the start-up, or boot disk, with the FORMAT d:/S command (where d: is the drive to be formatted).
A boot disk allows for recreating all the internal settings and disk files necessary to make the hardware operate properly.
New features in version 5.5 include improved scripting for automating deployments, a Boot Disk Builder for deploying DOS devices, an updated engine for enhanced stability and QuickBoot for copying and decompressing network files.
Employing that system's network communications and disk access, S/390 Linux Rescuer allows FDR/UPSTREAM to recover a user's entire system, including their Linux system boot disk, file systems, device drives as well as all their application program and data files.
Your computer will now start without loading the error reporting service, and you will suffer no more annoying messages.BOOT DISK SAVES THE DAY IMAGINE my disdain when I found there was no way to create a boot disk to help me recover from a disaster, in Windows XP - until now.
* ID 0 is normally the boot disk (some operating systems require the boot device to be ID 0.)
Insert a boot disk (see your OS documentation) into your floppy disk drive and power up your system.
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