OK, Gottfried, carbon-copying to your e-mail address for the last time ;-)
>>>is there a way to create a (FAT12) boot sector image (for later use
>>>on a bootable CD) on a PC without a floppy drive and Windows XP? I
>>>tried but sys needs a target dir...
>>>
>>>
>>SYS A: BOOTSECT.BIN BOOTONLY
>>
>>
>First I get a warning that the application tries to access the hard disk
>directly, If I press Ignore I get
>-- snip --
>Processing boot sector...
>Reading old bootsector from drive X:
>
>Ьberlauf bei Division
>-- snip --
>(Ьberlauf bei Division is German for Overflow at Division)
>
>I entered SYS X: [...] because in fact, I have a floppy drive but it's
>broken and I don't feel like buying a new one in the age of USB sticks
>;)
>
>Any ideas?
>
Sorry I didn't understand that you don't have a floppy drive. Maybe your
hard disk is A: and that's why you get this message?! Sorry, it seems
that you'll have to find another PC with a floppy drive then because SYS
needs to know the old boot sector data in order to create a new boot
sector. As a last resort, I can e-mail you the boot sector I just
created on this W2K3.
Lucho
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