This is part of Microsoft policy to protect the software. Insert the disk into the computer, and turn it on. Make sure you have a bootable floppy disk or CD. You cannot make the second drive bootable since there is no SYS command in XP. Make sure youre formatting your hard drive with the DOS specified for the operating system you plan on installing. On other hand if you referring to the capacity to put two hard drives in a computer, one of them has functional WinXP, and the other empty. Windows® XP Home Edition Utility: Setup Disks for floppy boot install. Unfortunately this is not the case in WinXP, the Boot loader is very BIG, in order to create a boot drive you need to Boot from the original CD-ROM (you need a Mother Board that can do it), or you can get the core files of Win XP from Microsoft, this core needs 7 floppies. The core boot loader of Win98 + Format + Sys are occupying less then 1.4 MB so they can fit on one floppy. If you copy to this floppy the Files, and SYS.com you will get a bootable floppy that can format and make Hard Drives bootable to Win98 DOS. Create active partition (Fdisk.exe) Format free disk space (Format.
In win 98 you can you can put an empty Floppy in drive A: then issue the command SYS A: and the floppy will become Bootable. img, or some other raw floppy image extension. Boot Drive, is a process to make a formatted drive capable to start the OS (usually as drive C: ) when you start the computer. The first thing you need to do is create a 1.44 MB empty file with an extension of. This is not an official DOS format and may not be recognised by DOS, and Windows. The one exception involves the 720K, 5.25 inch format. Format, is the process of electronically prepare a drive to receive info (files), in variety of Microsoft's OS.Ģ. DOS and Windows operating systems can recognise a Floppy Disks format and will read from, and write to, almost any disk format.
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