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mobo · 02-Nov-2003, 10:27 AM #1

Turn All Of Your Old Bootable Floppies Into Bootable Cd's [the easy way]

First Of All You Need A Cd-Burner, Nero Burning Rom v5.5 or higher
A Floppie Drive, A Blank CDR Disk
When You Have Everything:
Load Up Nero With Your Floppy In The Drive And Blank Cd In The Cd-Recorder
Close The Wizard
Hold Ctrl + N
Until A Box Appears
Scroll Down The List Until You Reach CDROM (Boot)
Click It
Bootable Logical Drive Must Be A:
Click The Burn TAB
Click New
Click File
Then Write Cd
Then Write
Done

dai · 02-Nov-2003, 12:27 PM #2

handy

juxtaposed75 · 03-Nov-2003, 10:19 PM #3

so, if i did this and i did it with my windows start up disk to reformat hard drives with, i won't have to use the floppy anymore? i can use the cd-r and get to fdisk to format hard drives and such?

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 10:28 PM #4

I somehow don't think so because the cdrom will not operatedue to the fact that its drivers will not be loaded as they would be when a floppy is used.

juxtaposed75 · 03-Nov-2003, 10:31 PM #5

hmm,
what if i changed the boot sequence to where the floppy don't boot but the cd-rom does?

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 10:34 PM #6

Same scenario. Without the cdrom drivers which is what would happen, the cdrom would not boot.

juxtaposed75 · 03-Nov-2003, 10:39 PM #7

see the thing is though, when you reformat a HDD it asks you if you want to start with cd-rom support... now doesn't that mean "drivers?"

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 10:41 PM #8

Its asking because of the floppy thats in the drive. The floppy doesn't need those drivers to begin its reading but the cdrom does.

I would love if you could prove me wrong by doing so . Why not give it a try then.. ?

juxtaposed75 · 03-Nov-2003, 10:44 PM #9

it's kool bruva, i wasn't trying to get under your skin

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 10:47 PM **#10**

I'm not taking it that way so no worries..But please do try it out and let me know.

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 10:49 PM **#11**

Hang on I'm doing it now.

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 10:57 PM **#12**

Verdict is in....

It works...you can load your floppy based boot disks to cdrom and throw the old dinosaurs away unless you have a cdrom less laptop

juxtaposed75 · 03-Nov-2003, 11:06 PM **#13**

man, thats pretty kool huh? thanks for trying it out and getting back with me with a verdict so fast!

mobo · 03-Nov-2003, 11:07 PM **#14**

I couldn't wait, just had to know

**pyritechips** · 04-Nov-2003, 01:33 AM **#15**

MOBO!

I just followed your instructions and converted my old W98se boot floppy into a boot CD! I changed my boot sequence in the BIOS to CD-ROM as 1st boot device, loaded the CD and rebooted...

...wow!

The old W98se boot utility loaded at a snap! Thanks a lot friend!

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