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    1. 06-15-2009 02:17 AM #1
      starry eyes
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      Another windows 2000 question

      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?
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    2. 06-16-2009 01:37 AM #2
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      I've heard IE8 can erase your boot.ini file, but not Windows itself. Did you recently "upgrade" your browser?
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    3. 06-16-2009 11:40 PM #3
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      Quote Originally Posted by ninja9578 View Post
      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.
      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.
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    4. 06-18-2009 04:19 AM #4
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      Are you sure it's not damage to the floppy/zip drive itself?

      And why are you using Windows 2000 to begin with?
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