What do you do for format a: /s

[ahsia]

You can create bootable floppies in Windows 9x by typing in:

format a: /s

After Windows ME and 2K, that option no longer works. What do I do to create just a bootable floppy? I don't want all the junk a Windows 98 Startup Disk gives you.

Thanks!

 

[Wayward]

Not sure about W2K but in XP open windows explorer, right click your floppy drive, select format, format options, select "make an MS-DOS statup disk"

 

[mee987]

im not using win2k or me right now so i cant verify, but cant you go to format floppy and check the "copy system files" box?

 

[Devistater]

Or you can copy the format.exe file to your hard drive and use that perhaps. Personally I just either use format /s for a barebones boot disk, or take the disk over to a win 98 machine and create a windows boot disk (the advantage of this option is that I get CD rom support when booting in dos).

 

[Epyon9283]

<< im not using win2k or me right now so i cant verify, but cant you go to format floppy and check the "copy system files" box? >>



Nope...

 

[Mitzi]

Your easiest solution is to download a premade bootdisk from bootdisk.com.

 

[ahsia]

<< Your easiest solution is to download a premade bootdisk from bootdisk.com. >>



I know about bootdisk.com, but what I really want is a way to create bootable floppies without all the other stuff like FDISK, FORMAT, etc., etc.

I know you can do it in Windows 9x, but in Windows 2000, you can't do either format a: /s or choose "copy system files". Anybody else?

 

[NogginBoink]

I don't think there's a built in solution for W2K. Remember, W2K is not DOS based, so they didn't throw in the ability to make a DOS based boot disk.

Thankfully XP rectified that.

 

[Jace]

In Windows ME you can just copy the io.sys and command.com files from c:\windows\command\
to a floppy. I've done that many times, works great.