can any one describe how a boot disk works in simple short terms?
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(regarding a Windows PC not MAC)\n\nA boot disk gives your computer the files necessary to start up and run the programs.  \n\nUsually this should not bother you turning on your computer, it should just go through it's little process then open your Windows programs and go about your business.  If you press certain F keys it will bring you into the boot process screen, where you can tell it to boot from floppy, cd, C:drive in what order.  I wouldn't mess with that much unless you know what you are doing.\n\nWhen you need to reinstal your operating system from scratch, and you reformat your hard drive, this is where the boot disk is very important.  This is the actual physical floppy disk for your operating system.  When you clean your computer out, you need to load this into the computer so your computer will know what to load.  You would then put in your CD (or if older, other floppies) to run the new Windows environment.  \n\nYour boot records are necessary for your computer to load it's operating system.
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boot the pc by booting  disc and command format C: you can format the c drive..
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Well there are many steps to this. I have done it once before successfully by using the steps on a link I found on http://www.bootdisk.com\nYou can also visit this site for instructions.\nhttp://old.bink.nu/xpbootcd/
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you need the windows operation system disk , from there u get to choose to reformat ur harddrive and install a fresh copy of windows, or u could choose to install another windows so u can switch between them\n\nWhen u put the disk in reset ur computer and it will automatically boot from the disk
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Well.... i didn't understand.... What do you mean.... because we normally Boot From HDD not Cd Rom....... so ofcourse it's Possible..... but i think you're having Problems....... anywayz... To Boot From Hdd... you can \n\n- Either Remove Jumper From Cd Rom ( you need to know basic hardware)\n\n- or Simply go to Bios (press del key while booting) and Set First Boot device hard disk (it's given your harddisk's name there) and to ensure........ make second boot device off!
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download a copy of partition magic 7.0. it is a 2 floppy program that will let you format, resize your partitions, convert, and create. it works from dead boot and has a mouse active GUI. best and easiest product for disk management.
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Is the drive you are trying to format still the 'boot' disk?\n\nYou need to be booting on the new drive before you can format the 'old' disc.\n\n///
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Well the drive may be bad. Know that.\n\nYou can use a few tools to boot and scan disks and even reformat them.\n\nStart with BartPE... it is a windows environment loaded from CD.\n\nFrom there you can launch all sorts of drive utilities.\n\nStart with a scan, then reformat, then buy a new drive...
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You can create your own boot floppy by following instructions at http://www.computerhope.com/boot.htm or download one from http://www.bootdisk.com/ and then copy it to CD or floppy.  \n\nKeep in mind that if you format your C: drive you are wiping out everything on your computer and will need to reinstall all of your applications and your operating system.  If you're having problems and think this will solve them, it might be worth paying someone to look at the computer or do this for you.
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Your Correct Answer is "(D) Disk Operating System"
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go to WWW.bootdisk.com
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Go to:\nStart\nRun\ntype in 'command' and hit enter\nthen type in fdisk and hit enter\nproblem solved!
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You have to make sure that your BIOS is set in the correct order to boot to the CD-ROM drive first. Some manufacturers set the hard drive first to increase performance. Here is how you check that.\n\n1. When you first turn your computer on before Windows has begun booting press the key to get into the BIOS, usually DEL, F1, F2 or F10 depending on manufacturer.\n2. Go to the section marked Advanced Configuration, or depending on manufacturer boot or boot sequence.\n3. Once inside they can be anywhere, but look for BOOT SEQUENCE or similar.\n4. You'll want the very first one to be CD-ROM or optical drive.\n5. Make any necessary changes and save and exit.\n6. The system should reboot and it will read the CD, if your hard drive is blank it will automatically boot, but if windows is already on it it will ask you if you want to boot you can just hit spacebar or any key when it asks.\n\nSorry it can't be more specific but since no two manufacturers can choose a friggin standard it has to be really broad.\n\nHope that helps.
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you can get bootdisk at www.bootdisk.com\nas for the rest, you might have it ( 98 ) allready on the computer in a reserve directory as some computer manufactuers save it on ther rather than giving you the disk
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It allows you to separate data into different segments for different things...\n\nFor instance, lets say I have a hard disk of 100 Gigabytes. I can partition that drive into three different pieces (assuming I use NTFS)\n\n1) First  partition is 50GB and will be my drive C:\n2) Second partition is 25GB and will be drive G:\n3) Third partition is just under 25GB (because of structure it never is the full 100 GB) and will be my drive H:\n\nThe first partition I can install a windows operating system on. The second partition (Drive G:) I will put on Linux operating system. The last paritition (Drive H) I will use strictly for games and music. So now my system is a dual boot system (I can run windows or Linux) as well as have a drive dedicated to my entertainment.\n\nParitition just allows you to break up the data into logical sections so that they are seen as different hard disks and treated differently. If you are using the FAT32 file system, you will be forced to parition bigger drives because FAT32 doesn't support bigger gigabyte hard disks.\n\nI hope this clarifies it for you. I have included a link below to Wikipedia that talks a bit more in depth about what you can do with partitions. Enjoy!
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by dos \nboot from a bootable disk\nif you have a ntfs partition you must have the ntfsDos program to do waht you need;\nremember the path and boot your computer from dos and then go to the path of that file and then delete it;\n...
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go to the hard drive manufacturer's web site and download their diagnostic utilities.\n\nOr you can download the ultimate boot CD for Windows and boot to that.  It has most manufacturer's diagnostic programs on that (but you need to burn the ISO image of the CD correctly.  Reference my sources below.