i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- --] i need to use a tricky disk to fdisk, format, and load the cdrom drivers before running the o/s setup.

I'm trying to make a bootable CD that boots to the image of 2.88 Meg DOS floppy and I'm not having much luck. Here's a quick run down of the steps I've taken. 1) Create a 1.44 Meg floppy disk that ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Sooner or later, every XP user faces the moment when he or she needs to access a system in a low-level maintenance mode to fix some kind of problem with the operating system itself. Perhaps the system ...

how to make a boot disk in Win 2K was very valuable.” The ability to create a bootable CD is a function of your CD recording software. I use Nero here and it easily creates a bootable CD as long as ...

An optical disc (CD, DVD) or USB drive that contains a bootable program that takes control of the computer. Computers are typically configured to look for the OS on a CD or DVD first and then the hard ...

Despite all of your preventive measures and the best-laid plans, sometimes the worst-case scenario happens: Your primary file server crashes right before your regularly scheduled backup window, and ...

ESET SysRescue Live Creator is a handy tool for creating a bootable antivirus rescue CD or USB key. There’s no shortage of competition in this area, of course, but Live Creator has one or two useful ...