jane bxbh

I need to create a boot CD. I do not have a floppy drive.

The "Format" option for my CD/DVD RW drive does not list "MSDOS Startup Disk"

Thanks

joann paules mvp

http://www.bootdisk.com

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

tim judd

does that offer the material to create a bootable *CD*?

this is what the OP asked for.

joann paules mvp

This certainly isn't my strongest field but is there a reason why you can't
put the same bootup files on a CD instead of a floppy?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

joann paules mvp

And if not...http://www.bootdisk.com/nero.htm

(A *very* fast Google search yielded this.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

tim judd

The boot information on a floppy is stored on sector 1, like a hard drive.

On a CD, if I recall correctly, it's sector 0x7c. The boot sectors
alone are different. You can use a floppy image as an "emulated" floppy
image on the CD, yes.

Some software has trouble, if at all, to do that. It seems the most
compatable software is Easy CD Creator (even as far as back as v4.x)

I don't use bootdisk.com because I always make my own. XP has that
feature builtin. All 9x has it built in. I am pretty sure 2003 has it
too. I think NT4 and 2000 were the only ones that couldn't create a
bootdisk.

I was just watching the OP, and seeing that you recommended floppies
from bootdisk.com.

If the OP has the problem solved in many of different ways; it's a moot
point now.

tim judd

what OS?

joann paules mvp

Bootdisk.com has all kinds of helpful info.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]