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Links: Volcanoes Windows 2000 - Windows XP Tricks 0012 » Build a NTFS or FAT boot floppy. 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 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 |