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CREATE A STARTUP DISKETTE

If you ever have trouble booting from your hard drive, you'll want to be able to boot from your floppy drive, which means you need a startup disk. You do this by first clicking on Settings on the Start menu, then clicking on Control Panel, next clicking on Add/Remove Programs, then choosing the tab for creating a startup diskette.

Various useful DOS command program files are copied on to a system (bootable) diskette. You might want to add a few files, like an appropriately modified AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, if you need them. And it could be a good idea to include SYSTEM.INI, WIN.INI, and the registry files SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT. (To get those last two, you will need to temporarily remove their hidden and read-only status with the ATTRIB -H -R command in an MS-DOS session.)