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every bios has a setting where you can choose the disks to boot from and their order. most bioses have a simple option such as "A,C,SCSI". that being the boot sequence.
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It did find a boot sector. It didn't find the NT loader.
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but uh, it worked when i took the floppy out. and yes i know about the boot order, i have my first device as the floppy, second as the cdrom, and third as the raid card. i'm just trying to figure out why it wouldn't skip over the floppy considering it was a completely blank non-system floppy.
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Alot of computers will try to boot off a floppy if there is one present in the drive, wether it's bootable or not, mine says non-systems disk detected please remove disk and reboot, or some such shit. I usually turn off floppy booting unless i need it.
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...and it said NTLOADR failed. And I thought "hey, the nt loader is screwed up." So I put the Win2k CD in. Then I thought "hey, that message was too simple to be Microsoft." So I took out the floppy and rebooted. And I stand before you today a complete idiot. Aren't bioses supposed to skip over a disk and go to the next drive in the boot order if they dont find a boot record?
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Most computers are smart enough to skip over a CDROM if there's a non-bootable disk inside, but I have yet to find one (knock on Rhydant's empty wooden head) that will skip over a floppy disk when one is inserted.

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its just the "NTLOADR Failed, press any key to reboot" is a bit harder to understand than "Non-bootable floppy, replace and press any key"
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PostIcon Posted on: Sep. 17 2001,19:29 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
see, the partition itself is still bottable that is why it's not giving you that error. it's just that one file is missing
u r best off reinstalling OS
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see, the partition itself is still bottable that is why it's not giving you that error. it's just that one file is missing
u r best off reinstalling OS

You don't know what you're talking about, do you?

He formatted a floppy in Windows 2000, Windows 2000 puts it's own boot sector on the floppy when you format it, he leaves the floppy in the drive, reboots, computer sees Windows 2000 boot sector on the floppy, boots from Windows 2000 boot sector, Windows 2000 boot code tried to find NTLOADR (Windows 2000 boot loader), cannot find it, and thus prints "NTLOADR failed".

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