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04-Nov-2003, 08:47 AM #16
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27-Nov-2003, 10:03 PM #17
Hey mobo, what if ya don't have nero? I have easy cd creator.
I can feel a head ache coming. LOL

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OK, so let me understand this; if you load your bootable floppy onto a CD and make the CD bootable using Nero, you can boot to the floppy program and choose to load drivers for your CD-rom drive that must already be working since you booted to it. I think I understand, Now I'm getting a headache!
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28-Nov-2003, 05:50 AM #20
You still need the CD Rom drivers loaded.
What happens is this.
When you Boot from CD in the bios, the bios switches the address of the Foppy A drive to Floppy B. It then copies the address of the CD drive to where the Floppy A was and boots from floppy A (the bootable part of the CD) the address of the CD drive is still in the correct place for the CD so if you have the CD drivers loaded you can access the rest of the CD with the normal CD drive letter. This means you will have A: (boot part of CD - READ ONLY). B: the original floppy drive. Your hard drives and the CD drive.
It is possible to take this even further and create a copy of a bootable hard disk partition on the CD and boot from it - but it must all fit and be read only.
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28-Nov-2003, 08:12 AM #21
It does work and considerably faster as well..As I stated the only one I have done to date is 98 SE and it works exactly as the floppy does ...
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28-Nov-2003, 10:59 AM #22
I just thought of another advantage of having a boot CD: A virus cannot write to it. On a normal boot floppy you are supposed to slide up the write protect tab but I think a lot of people forget.
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28-Nov-2003, 01:26 PM #23
Thanks DaveBurnett , for the clear explanation. I think I have it now and my head feels all better already.


pyritechips , That's an excellent point.
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I couldn't get it to work. But I'm running XP. Does that make a difference?

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28-Nov-2003, 07:00 PM #25
Apparently so, I can't get it either (XP Home). It boots and just sits there tells me, "Booting from atapi 1.44 meg drive:" and does zilch forever. Hitting any key continues the boot from the C: drive.
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28-Nov-2003, 07:08 PM #26
I can't even get Nero to work right. I try and do what is suggested and get no where. But this is my first time working with Nero. I have to try and reinstall it. It doesn't even have the help file installed.

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28-Nov-2003, 07:10 PM #27
in order to make a boot cd in xp you need a boot.bin image file, I was going to attach it but the site won't let me
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28-Nov-2003, 07:14 PM #28
Will that make Nero work for me as per the instructions?
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28-Nov-2003, 07:19 PM #29
To allow it to be attached, you can rename the .bin to a .txt and we'll understand
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28-Nov-2003, 07:29 PM #30
I don't understand. I thought you have what XP needed. LOL
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