WinXP Boot Disk w/USB mouse and KB

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I want to create my own CD Boot Disk that will use various DOS programs for
this and that.

Since building a new computer using an Intel DP35DP motherboard - no PS 2
ports any longer - I can't use my old floppy disk based versions. However, CD
booting must be a science in itself since everywhere I've looked on the
Internet offers a different method ... none of which worked for me.

I have used EZ CD Creator 9.1 LE successfully to create a disk that boots,
but doesn't work since I can't figure our HOW to use - or if I have to - USB
drivers to operate the USB mouse and keyboard.

Does anyone here know how to do this? I imagine it involves writing
instructions to the AUTOEXEC.BAT AND CONFIG.SYS files - another old science,
I know - to accomplish this.

All I am trying to accomplish is booting to a DOS prompt from which I can
launch my old copies of Ghost_03, IBM's Wipe.exe and other various DOS file
management files. That is, EDIT, DELTREE, et al.
 
From my understanding Ghost 2003 can read and write to NTFS partitions. Also,
IBM's WIPE.EXE can eat anything on a hard drive from just about anywhere.

Also, my spare box is running W2K (formatted in NTFS) - with an actual
floppy drive - and I can get around with the CD Boot Disk I made for it.

It may be one of those things where not knowing any better I can still get
up smelling like a rose. :-)
 
Doesn't creating a boot CD for Ghost2003 have options for other programs to
be included? It's been a LONG time since I used Ghost of any flavor, but I
thought there were those options in some versions. Might be something to
check.

SC Tom
 
I solved my difficulty by burning and using UBCD based on Bart's PE. It's
loaded with gobs of freeware programs sufficient to do what I wanted ... and
have already done.

Anyone considering anything like what I wanted to do should investigate
using this PE program also.
 
It works really well, too. I've had one of them for a while. Another CD you
might want to consider is slipstreaming an XP install CD with SP3. Works
great, too, for repairs to an existing system with SP3.

SC Tom
 
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