Re: Windows XP Startup Disk

From: Daniel Sedory <thestarman(at)juno.com>
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 19:03:20 EDT

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In light of some requests for more information about the files on the Windows XP Startup Disk, I have created a web page with all the MAC times of both previously deleted Win ME (overwritten and recoverable) and Win XP files here:

http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/winxp/winxpsd.htm

To clarify: This "Startup Disk" is only a simply DOS (ME; v.8.0) boot disk. It has nothing to do with NTFS partitions nor the Win XP OS itself. I can only guess that someone at Microsoft decided there was a necessity for Win XP users to still be able to boot up their systems to a simple DOS prompt, so included the ability to create such a disk from within the Windows XP OS.

Sincerely, Daniel B. Sedory (aka, The Starman).

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