floppy disk boot disk fails

[flw]

I created a floppy boot disk on a Vista Home Prem with the gui and another with cmd line (format /s). Both create the same error.

"Command line interpreter is missing (i.e. c:\windows\command.com)"

Then it goes to a a: prompt where no commands work. I get no errors when creating the boot disk, only when I try to use it.

Help!

 

[linney]

At the A: prompt does the basic DIR command also not work?

Can you use the Command Prompt from accessing the Vista Startup repair screen via booting from the original install media? Whether that would allow you to do what you want I don't know?

Have a look at Vista's Startup Repair.

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx#EX

Just for the record, the floppy I created in Vista seems to work normally for me.

 

[JockMullin]

I know diddly about Vista, but in every version of DOS I ever saw that error means command.com is not present on the floppy.

Without a command interpreter (either command.com or cmd.exe) no commands will work.

If you do a dir a: from a vista command prompt, what is on the floppy? If there is a command.com in your Vista partition, and you copy it onto A: does that fix it?

Jock