Totally Floppy (W98)

[Styxophrenic]

Hello,

I want to boot up my computer directly from a floppy and nowhere else. In the BIOS, if I choose to have the A drive first, it will still boot up from the C drive if I do not have a floppy in there. Basically, here's what I want: if someone does not have the floppy, they will not be able to boot up my computer. Is this possible?

[BertImmenschuh]

Not a direct solution but I would password the BIOS, then the computer can't be booted without the password, even in DOS.

[BertImmenschuh]

The only way I've seen to run Win9x from a floppy is with Norton Zip Rescue, which uses a Zip drive/disk and a boot floppy that Zip Rescue creates when installed, and being intended for repair purposes only it is really, really slow .

Win9x/ME has to load, into memory, too many things such as drivers before it will run, therefore it won't fit on a floppy, like DOS would.

There would be no way to run any programs even if Windows did load up and run.

[Styxophrenic]

How do I password my BIOS? That's not the password you can use to get into setup is it?

[BertImmenschuh]

I don't know what BIOS your computer uses but there may be both a Supervisor password and a User password, or only one.

One will password the BIOS so it can't be changed and the other requires a password before the computer will boot up.

This is where studying the BIOS screens is important and/or have the motherboard manual is necessary.

[scranman]

What the dude is looking for would be the POST password. THis is the foirst passwordyou see. I dont think (Unless you yoink out the hard drive) that there is a way of only booting to floppy. Unless you write your own BIOS Or make the board and chips from squat. Which I doubt you would want to.
SCRANMAN

Tell your users 90% of all computer problems can be fixed with a simple re-boot... Or just a large boot.
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