[b]will win xp boot disk work on win 2000 PC[/b]

[ajduk1]

I have both win XP and Win 2000 machines that I need to run a utility from a bootable floppy.I can create a bootable floppy in XP but not in Win 2000. If I create a dos boot disk in XP will this work with Win 2000.

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[vacunita]

Sure. since you are booting off a Floppy. whatever you have installed is out of the equation. But i would not use an XP bootable floppy but rather a Win98 Boot floppy.



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[eyec]

or go to

http://www.bootdisks.com

and get a W2K boot disk.

 

[wolluf]

what utility are you running? Eg, if its a bios flash utility, you want a bootable floppy that gives you a dos environment (creating a boot disk in xp would be fine for this - its actually a cut down ME boot disk). If it needs access to the hard drive - and the hard drive is ntfs, then you'll need additional software/drivers if you use a dos type bootable floppy (this includes win9x/ME boot floppies).

2k boot floppies (4) and XP boot floppies (6) are for starting off an installation/getting access to recovery console if you don't have a 2k/xp install CD.