bootdisk
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I've taken the files from a 98SE startup floppy along with the updated version of fdisk for larger drives and made bootable cds using cd-rs. Simply look at any live Linux distro to see how common this is. GParted the Linux disk partitioning tool boots from cd. XP even has files available for creating a boot floppy that can also go on a cd-r. For usb flash drives can be made into quick boot devices there.
The old zip disks were also tried out for booting systems with. But simply burning files to disk like a cd-r isn't enough there. The burning program used has to be able to create bootable disk images then burned to disk.
The old zip disks were also tried out for booting systems with. But simply burning files to disk like a cd-r isn't enough there. The burning program used has to be able to create bootable disk images then burned to disk.
The_Other_One
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Any computer should support a floppy boot disk. Most any fairly recent one(1997+) should support CD boots. I'd say anything from around 2003+ should support USB boot devices(including USB floppies, flash drives, memory cards, etc etc...)
So no, basically any media is supported, as long as the computer itself supports it
So no, basically any media is supported, as long as the computer itself supports it
hells3000
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Any computer should support a floppy boot disk. Most any fairly recent one(1997+) should support CD boots. I'd say anything from around 2003+ should support USB boot devices(including USB floppies, flash drives, memory cards, etc etc...)
So no, basically any media is supported, as long as the computer itself supports it
My plan is to make a boot disk for windows 2000 after it boots insert the windows 2000 disk
will that work?
If you have the full install version of 2000 you simply boot with the installation disk itself. In fact 98 and ME were also supposed to be install from boot capable. I still had to boot from a floppy with cd rom support enabled for 98SE. For the disk image you simply need a burner and a prgram that has the option to make the disk bootable. Without that you would simply be burning files to a data disk.
A quick look at http://www.bootdisk.com/ntfs.htm shows that the link for making bootable cds there only discusses bios updating and using NT4Dos in order to access and copy files to and from an NTFS type partition while in dos. What was done here was to first make up the boot floppy and then copy the files off of that to a temp folder. The burning sofware would then burn those onto a cd-r after setting the "nake bootable" option.
A quick look at http://www.bootdisk.com/ntfs.htm shows that the link for making bootable cds there only discusses bios updating and using NT4Dos in order to access and copy files to and from an NTFS type partition while in dos. What was done here was to first make up the boot floppy and then copy the files off of that to a temp folder. The burning sofware would then burn those onto a cd-r after setting the "nake bootable" option.