Post B0GemCeXdBO80eD8W8 by Aprazeth@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #B0GcDZTqZE34lQZDuK by foone@digipres.club
       2025-11-15T10:36:08Z
       
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       I picked up a laptop at a junk store, and it's running windows 2000. It's old enough that I'm not sure it can boot off USB, but it's got a floppy drive:Is it possible to boot a floppy disk that can read NTFS and run NTPWD/Chntpw? or does that need a bootable CD/USB?
       
 (DIR) Post #B0GcOWyqCdI6CBI3zE by foone@digipres.club
       2025-11-15T10:38:10Z
       
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       or maybe I could put plop on a floppy and that'd let me boot off the USB.
       
 (DIR) Post #B0GemCeXdBO80eD8W8 by Aprazeth@mstdn.social
       2025-11-15T10:53:48Z
       
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       @foone Would it not be possible to extract the HDD itself and attach it to another PC/laptop instead?
       
 (DIR) Post #B0GemDd9znsT2eZY0G by foone@digipres.club
       2025-11-15T11:04:49Z
       
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       @Aprazeth normally, yeah. too bedridden to manage that right now, sadly
       
 (DIR) Post #B0GeprvOdikYseqInw by foone@digipres.club
       2025-11-15T11:04:57Z
       
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       @abstractcode dunno yet!
       
 (DIR) Post #B0GlkF7mAcXsm5thui by nroach44@mastodon.social
       2025-11-15T12:19:37Z
       
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       @foone you can make an iPXE floppy and that'll netboot, I would suspect you could cajole it into USB boot. Either that or if you can get 2.6.21 small enough for a floppy you could kexec
       
 (DIR) Post #B0GlkGdiXLgpTRqjL6 by foone@digipres.club
       2025-11-15T12:22:49Z
       
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       @nroach44 no network. It came with a PCMCIA ethernet card missing a dongle