Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
    • Task Manager
    • Restarting Windows 2000
    • What is a Computer Virus?
    • Curing and Preventing Computer Viruses
    • Creating a Startup Disk
    • Troubleshooting Windows 2000
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

Creating a Startup Disk

The better prepared you are for a disaster, the less likely the disaster will happen. Why? Well, if you are prepared for a disaster, then your potential disasters are merely inconveniences!

Two very important steps you can take in disaster preparation are to back up your PC hard drive and create a system boot disk.

Ask your System Administrator if you should have a startup disk to start your computer. It's possible that your administrator has such a set of disks. If your System Administrator recommends that you create boot disks, you'll need the Windows 2000 CD ROM and four floppy disks. Once you have the CD, follow these steps:

1. Insert a blank disk into your floppy drive.
2. Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
3. Click Start, Run, and type d:\bootdisk\makeboot a: (where d: is your CD-ROM drive and a: is your floppy drive).

The screen prompts will take you through the rest of the creation of your disks. When you are finished, label your disks Setup Disk One, Setup Disk Two, and so forth.

If you are experiencing problems that require you to use the startup disks, you might need the help of your System Administrator, Help Desk, a Windows professional or a very experienced Windows/DOS guru. These kinds of problems and their fixes are beyond the scope of this book, but creating a startup disk will assist the person helping you when he is troubleshooting your PC.

Share This