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- DOCUMENT:Q101668 09-FEB-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :How To Guard Against Boot Failure with a Windows NT Boot Disk
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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- When Windows NT is installed on a computer that has an Intel x86-based
- processor and the boot record for the active partition or files required to
- boot Windows NT becomes corrupted, it is not possible to boot Windows NT or
- any other operating system on that computer.
-
- To guard against this situation, create a Windows NT boot disk when you
- install Windows NT on the computer. This disk is different from an MS-DOS
- boot disk because the entire Windows NT operating system cannot fit on one
- disk as MS-DOS can. A Windows NT boot disk contains the files necessary to
- start the operating system with the remainder of the Windows NT system
- files installed on the hard disk drive. Use the following procedure to
- create this disk.
-
- 1. In File Manager, place a blank floppy disk in drive A and choose Format
- Disk from the Disk menu.
-
- 2. In the root directory of the boot partition of your hard disk drive, use
- the ATTRIB command to remove the hidden, system, and read-only
- attributes from the BOOT.INI, NTLDR, BOOTSECT.DOS, and NTDETECT.COM
- files.
-
- 3. Copy the four files to the boot disk.
-
- 4. Use the ATTRIB command to restore the hidden, system, and read-only
- attributes to the files on your hard disk.
-
- 5. If Windows NT is installed on a SCSI drive, perform steps 2 through
- 4 above to copy the NTBOOTDD.SYS file to the boot disk as well.
-
- If you format a floppy disk in File Manager, the boot record points to the
- NTLDR file. When NTLDR runs, it loads the available operating system
- selections from the BOOT.INI file. If the user chooses Windows NT, NTLDR
- loads NTDETECT.COM and NTOSKRNL.EXE. If the user chooses MS-DOS or OS/2,
- NTLDR loads BOOTSECT.DOS.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 bootdisk boot
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- KBSubcategory: howto
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