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The KB has an article, Q119467, describing the process of building a boot floppy for an NTFS partition. This is useful if you accidentally replace the boot disk hardware driver or loose your boot manager, and no ERD is available. The procedure in the article did not work in my environment but the enclosed process did allow me to successfully boot. Try the method in Q119467 first. The Process: (Some of these files are hidden/system/read_only so in explorer options/view check "show all files" and uncheck "hide files...." 1. DISKCOPY the first Setup Disk. 2. Delete all files on this new Boot Floppy. 3. Copy NTDETECT.COM and BOOTSECT.DOS*** from your root to the floppy. 4. Copy NTLDR from your root to the floppy, renaming it SETUPLDR.BIN 5. COPY NTBOOTDD.SYS from your root to the floppy.** 6. Create a BOOT.INI as follows (SPACING IS IMPORTANT) * or just copy your C:\BOOT.INI [boot loader] timeout=10 default= scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Server Version 4.0" It is a good idea to have a second instance of NT installed on a different partition( preferably a different disk). This will insure that you can always boot (if it is in this boot.ini). You will also be able to boot to this alternate instance to "repair" your primary instance. * WINNT is my NT directory - no drive letter allowed. "Windows NT .." could be any character string such as "Glad I had this BOOT FLOPPY!" ** This is a copy of your SCSI driver. If you don't have a SCSI NT disk, you don't need this. If you have a SCSI NT disk and the SCSI BIOS is enabled, you don't need this, but it is a good idea to protect against SCSI BIOS failure (which will prevent booting). *** Only if DOS is installed. .............................................................................. .............................................................................. Scheduling a Windows NT backup. NT has a built in scheduling service. To use it with network access, define a user account with all the permissions and rights you want the schedule service to have. It must be a member of the Administrators group and have the right to log on as a batch job and as a service (advanced rights). It must have a non-blank, non-expiring password. In control panel/services, locate the scheduler service and change the startup to use this account. Set it to logon automatically. Now stop and restart the service. In a DOS window (Command prompt), type AT /? This is the syntax for scheduling. Here is an example on how to schedule a backup. 1. Using any text editor, such as Notepad, create a command file (MYBACKUP.CMD) to perform the commands to backup the requested files. (You must use full path names for every file and program.) The following example would back up all files on the C: drive, replacing any files currently on the tape, label the backup set "My Backup Files", backup the local registry, and log all backup information to C:\BACKUP.LOG: Drive:\WinNT\system32\ntbackup backup c: /D "My Backup Files" /B /L "c:\backup.log" NOTE: For additional information on available NTBACKUP options, search Windows NT Help for NTBACKUP. 2. Using the AT command, schedule the command file (MYBACKUP.CMD) to run when desired. The following AT command will schedule MYBACKUP.CMD to execute at 11:00 P.M. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: AT 23:00 /interactive /every:M,W,F cmd.exe /c "Drive:\Directory\MYBACKUP.CMD"