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Dumbest thing I ever seen !

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Thor_Sevan

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When I first build my PC (one year ago exactly) I had no floppy. NO FLOPPY ! Hey hey ! 🙂 Who needs that stupid, ugly, slow and noisy thingy ?
I said, even windows 98 boots from the CD ! 🙂 No need for floppy anymore.
Then... I needed a floppy to install some stupid crap drivers for something I can't remember so I bough one. But NEVER used it after.
Last day, I installed win 2000 and you know what ? IT WON'T BOOT FROM THE CD ! Hahahahahahaha (hilarious and diabolic style). 😉
So what... euh... I needed 4 damn stupid floppies to make some boot disk... once the 15 min operation was completed.... ohh... I needed to reboot and read again what he JUST wrote on the floppy !

 
man... this IS annoying !

PART II:

At that time I just wanted to K*LL Microsoft ! LOL 🙂
Why make boot disk from the cd if I could directly read from the CD ??? Man.. that is the DUMBEST thing I never say in my computer life I think.. 😉 Except that little thingy, win 2000 is great.

So... that was the story of my floppy ! enjoy ! hehehe
 
The win2k boot disks double as recovery boot disks. Important information including installation location are written to the floppy. It obviously can't be written to the CD. That's why win2k requires floppy disks.
 
The floppies are not required to install, but if you want to be able to recover a corrupted OS, the floppies are far more effective then hoping you can recover from the CD.
 
I am not trying to start a war or anything but is your version of Win 2k a pirated or Store bought copy? Every Factory Win 2k Pro or Sever CD I have seen will boot the system from the CD and since your motherboard obviously boots from the CD since your 98 CD booted fine, something is wrong. All the so called "WAREZ" copies of 2k that I have seen do not boot as most people can't seem to copy a CD correctly! I own Win 2k Pro and mine boots fine on all the systems in my place that I have tried it on. Either you got a bad CD or it's not a factory. I know that Win 2k is a tad expensive but to me it's worth every penny. It's the most stable OS I have ever run.

 
Are you sure everything's setup correctly in the BIOS, and that the CD's not defective?
I had a burned Win2K that couldnt boot for some reason, made another copy and the problem was gone.
 
I´v never managed to boot a computer from a Win98 cd, no boot sector on the CD
Win2000 on the other hand it has allways worked, never ever used a floppy and installed it on 10-20 computers many times.
 
I've always booted from the Win98 CD and the good thing about the A7V bios and I don't know if other boards have this is to disable the floppy scan at sart-up, the floppy drive still works but it just won't boot from it therefore bypassing that clucky noise at startup. If ever I need to boot at start up I'll just re-enable it for that time.
 
I have a copy of Win 2k advanced server. I just wanted to give a try. Seems not to be the EXACT thing I wanted 🙂 LOL 😕 hehehe

So it boots from the Cd eh ?.... strange.... I'll try again just for fun !
 
Heh, over the last 10-12 months, I've sold the floppies out of my machines to clients that needed replacements quickly, and I haven't even really noticed they're gone. If there's something that I can't do over the lan and absolutely must be sneaker-net'd, I use a cdrw. Certainly that wouldn't work for everyone's situation, but I don't miss my floppies.
 


Some copies of Windows 98 will boot from CD (OEM and Full) some won't,
(Upgrade, AKAIK, because they assume you already have an OS loaded).

All the types of W2K I have seen will boot, unless there is some sort
of read error accessing the drive.

To add to what Dennis pointed out, some "copies" of W2K are not full copies
of the CD, just of the setup files, and as such do not have the boot sector
infomation available for the system to boot from.

IMO Floppies are still necessary, unfortunately, becuase we still don't have
a universal replacement media. ZIP disks and CDs are becoming more prevalent,
but lack some of the old convenience that floppies gave.

TheBigZ: I also switched to carrying all my "emergency utils" on a CDRW a while back,
but I've had to resort to keeping a CD-R backup of it for some drives I hit that
can't read the CDRW.

 
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