My command.com is broken or something

[Sukhoi]

All I'm trying to do is make a bootable floppy so I can run Symantec Ghost from DOS and image my hard drive onto another. But I can't make a bootable floppy!

If I format a floppy, tell it to put the system files on it, and then try to boot from it all I get is "Type the name of the command interpreter, example C:\command.com" or whatever. But the floppy has command.com on it! And if I try to tell it that it ignores me.

I went to bootdisk.com and for shits and giggles made a Win98SE bootdisk and it does the same thing! So what the heck is going on? BTW OS is WinXP Pro SP3. All I want is an A: prompt! 🙁

 

[imported_mackintire]

For giggles....do you by chance have a USB drive plugged in somewhere?

To test if your system is lieing to you go into the BIOS and turn all the boot devices off except the floppy.
and nplug all your USB devices.

Retry and let us know.

 

[Sukhoi]

No USB drives so that isn't the issue. I tried setting it so the floppy is the only bootable drive, and get the same problem. Tomorrow I'm going to try making a floppy on my gf's computer to see if maybe that will work, but still why can't my computer make a bootable floppy?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Maybe the problem is the floppy drive? Try your bootable floppy in another comp.

 

[Sukhoi]

This is weird. I tried the disks in my gf's computer, and they work just fine. Is it possible my floppy drive writes files correctly but can't read them? I can't think of anything that could possibly be set wrong in the BIOS to prevent my computer from booting from a floppy.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
This is weird. I tried the disks in my gf's computer, and they work just fine. Is it possible my floppy drive writes files correctly but can't read them? I can't think of anything that could possibly be set wrong in the BIOS to prevent my computer from booting from a floppy.

Check your cable...