command prompt plz help!!!!!

[kevjor]

i took a harddrive of mine and i want to reformat to wipe my stuff off of it to install it into a friends pc and when i put the boot disk in to bring up the screen to boot without a cd it brings me up the winds me screen with the options of normal safemode, boot, step by step confirmation how do i get the other screen to come up please help me thank you

[degsy]

What bootdisk are you using?

Are you sure that the PC is booting from the floppy disk?

[kevjor]

i am using a bootdisk i got form bootdisk.com me disk my floppy makes sounds like it is reading so i asume it is reading or is it how do i tell?

[degsy]

Did you run the file from bootdisk.com to create a startup disk?

If not then you have only downloaded the executable and not created a startup disk.

[kevjor]

i downloaded the bootdisk from this site (bootdisk) and put it on a floppy is that how i do it or what am i doing wrong

[degsy]

You need to run the file in Windows and it will prompt for a floppy disk to create a Startup Disk.

[Bennie H Mineer]

You need to run the file in Windows and it will prompt for a floppy disk to create a Startup Disk.
:blush: You probably have it fixed by now, but if not.. You can go to control panel, open add-remove... at the top is a tab for making a startup disk, put a floppy in the drive, and click on the tab. It will make a start up disk for you. Put the floppy in drive A and restart your computer. It will take you to a command prompt. Hope this late message helps you. Ben...

PS make sure you have the bios set to boot from floppy drive first.

You can do all this from the safe mode, From your post I am assuming that you can get into the safe mode from the other disk you were talking about.