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Apparently, if you take a working win 2000 computer and at any point connect a bootable dos disk (floppy, zip, etc), win 2000's standard (and repeatable) behavior is overwrite that disk's boot sector in such a way as to make it irreversibly useless for many genuine dos apps. Requiring a complete reformat to correct.
Are there any known settings, maybe registry settings, to shut this "system feature" off?
I've heard IE8 can erase your boot.ini file, but not Windows itself. Did you recently "upgrade" your browser?
No. I don't even use win 2000 to go online with anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by ninja9578
It's not erasing the boot.ini files, these are real 16-bit dos formatted disks which don't have boot.ini files. What they have are a boot sector (which gets ruined), and (command.com, io.sys, and msdos.sys) which don't get changed but run differently because of the changed boot sector.
Are you sure it's not damage to the floppy/zip drive itself?
And why are you using Windows 2000 to begin with?