Dos startup disk

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Bob

I followed the instructions to make a dos startup disk. It boots up in drive
A, however when I try to access the C Drive I get a no such drive message.

I would also like to have a cd startup disk. Copied the files on the floppy
(A drive) to my writable CD drive. It copied the files ok but it would not
boot up from the CD.

Any solutions to either problem would be appreciated.

Bob
 
Booting from a CD is a function you enable in your BIOS. - see you computer
manual for which setting and how to get into the BIOS.
To make a floppy that allows access to the CD drive you need to also place
on the floppy the drivers for the CD drive and the CD extensions MSCDEX etc
to enable CD ROM support.
The simplest method is to just get hold of a Windows 98 Second Edition boot
disk from any of the many Internet sites that you can find through a simple
search for "boot disk" at some where like www.google.com etc.


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Bob,
First, if your HD is NTFS formatted, the DOS boot won't be able to access
it. You will need a third party program, such as NTFSDOS
(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/NTFSDOS.shtml) that you run from
the floppy after booting.

When you copied the files to the CD, did you also copy the normally
Hidden/System files io.sys and msdos.sys? And keep in mind what Mike said
about setting your BIOS to allow boot from CD.

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I followed the instructions to make a dos startup disk. It boots up in drive
A, however when I try to access the C Drive I get a no such drive message.

I would also like to have a cd startup disk. Copied the files on the floppy
(A drive) to my writable CD drive. It copied the files ok but it would not
boot up from the CD.

Any solutions to either problem would be appreciated.

Bob
 
Mike,

I have a windows 98 2nd edition boot up disk. When I use it the boot process
loads the diagnostic files to Drive C, but it does not seem to read the
drive. None of the directories are acessable?
It seems to only read the dos command files that were downloaded from the
boot disk?

Bob
 
Bob,

The Win98 boot disk creates a RAM drive in memory (looks like a little hard
drive) and loads the diag tools to it. It then loads the basic CD drivers
for the drive (usually d:)
The reason your "real" C drive is not visible is that it is formatted as
NTFS and the Win98 boot disk cannot read that format.

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Mike
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