![]() ![]() This is part of Microsoft policy to protect the software. You cannot make the second drive bootable since there is no SYS command in XP. 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. For a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, low-level formatting normally writes 18 sectors of 512 bytes to each of 160 tracks (80 on each side) of the floppy disk, providing 1,474,560 bytes of storage on the disk. Windows® XP Home Edition Utility: Setup Disks for floppy boot install. The low-level format of floppy disks (and early hard disks) is performed by the disk drives controller. 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. 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. Boot Drive, is a process to make a formatted drive capable to start the OS (usually as drive C: ) when you start the computer. ![]() Format, is the process of electronically prepare a drive to receive info (files), in variety of Microsoft's OS.Ģ. ![]()
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