Enhance / protect your XP installation
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Here is how to:

• Open Explorer, head over to disk drive a:

• Right click and choose format

• Do not check "make msdos bootable"

• Click ok.

• If ready, open root of drive C:

• Unhide all files from being seen (remove System and hidden attributes

• Now copy the following files to your floppy just formatted:

  Look for this files to copy

  • boot.ini

  • ntdetect.com

  • ntldr

  • cmldr

   

  "cmldr" is on your drive, if you installed the recovery console already.
   

  
  
  
  Now you have a disk, you can start your installed system too.

  This disk is no replacement for the bootable CD to install the system. But some older systems are sometimes hard to convince to boot from CD, so the floppy can help you much quicker.

  
  
  A note to XP installation:
  A dual installation W2K and XP onto the same machine works, but due to some changes, W2K has some glitches after the dual installation if XP uses the same partition for its booting files. W2K will boot happily, but fails in proper power off. Those files are ntldr and ntdetect.com, where ntldr is the problematic change.
  
  But if you revert those files to original W2K, XP won't boot anymore because of the changed registry layout!
  
  If you like or dislike the Windows Update provided by MS, doesn't realy matter, as long as you get those updates and enhancements to be as safe as possible in internet, and get fixes for other problems too, such as gaming.
  
  
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