Creating Windows 2000 boot disk 

A boot disk is a substitute to your hard drive in emergency when hard drive is not in a condition to boot your computer, a boot disk will allow you to boot through the diskette. This diskette can be used as an alternative solution for your computer to fix Windows 2000 boot disk problems.

This article will guide you to make a boot disk for a Windows 2000 operating system. A boot disk will come to your help when operating system on a computer running Windows 2000 will not boot properly and the damage is suspected in the files that start Windows.

Follow the steps in this article to fix the problems that blocks your system from starting. The problems may occur due to boot sector damage, Trojans, virus, missing files, improper or damaged drivers etc. This article will help you to explain the boot process, possible problems and situations and how to make a boot disk and use it.

How to create Boot Disks for Windows 2000? 

You need four floppy disks. First you have to create a set of Setup boot disks for Windows 2000, run the Makeboot.exe tool using Windows 2000 CD-ROM from the Bootdisk folder.

a) Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.

b) Click Start.

c) Click Run.

d) Open box will appear.

e) Type drive:\bootdisk\makeboot a:, write the letter of your CD - ROM drive in place of drive.

f) Press ENTER.

 

Things to remember 

Remember that, to create the Setup Boot disks you do not have to run Windows 2000.A "Bootdisk" directory resides in the root of the Windows 2000 Setup CD. The two utilities generate the four Setup Boot floppies from this directory. You have to run the 32-bit version of this utility called makebt32.exe if you are booted into Windows 9x.You have to use the 16-bit version called makeboot.exe, in case of DOS or Windows 98 Startup Floppy that has access to the CDROM.

You must use specific disks. The disks created from the Windows 2000 Professional CD cannot be used with Windows 2000 Server and vice versa.

Always select safe mode prior to start a computer from a CD or floppy disks.

The Emergency Repair Disk or Recovery Console can be used after starting a disabled computer from floppy disks.

The commands, which are used to create Setup boot disks with Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and earlier versions, do not work with Windows 2000.

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