Making a bootable CD

**sethfp** · March 2nd, 2004, 12:37 AM

Am using Win98SE. Making a bootable CD--is there an easy way?

**confus-ed** · March 2nd, 2004, 06:09 AM

Originally Posted by daffy86

http://www.iomega.com/support/manual...chor-How-36704

There's loads of ways so ' yourself' !

Are you looking to buy something (so give us a budget & start thinking about say Nero , as do many writing proggies .. there are lots !) or do you want something 'free' ?

Maybe you already have something that will (like I said a writing program for CDR which you surely have if you want to 'create a boot cd') & you just don't know how ?

(if you do like easy cd, which I don't at all .. that'll work to create a bootable cd - if you can put up with its 'other' issues

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**sethfp** · March 3rd, 2004, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

There's loads of ways so ' yourself' !

Are you looking to buy something (so give us a budget & start thinking about say Nero , as do many writing proggies .. there are lots !) or do you want something 'free' ?

Maybe you already have something that will (like I said a writing program for CDR which you surely have if you want to 'create a boot cd') & you just don't know how ?

(if you do like easy cd, which I don't at all .. that'll work to create a bootable cd - if you can put up with its 'other' issues

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I use Nero. Do you have to start with a bootable floppy, or can it just be CD?

**confus-ed** · March 4th, 2004, 06:12 AM

You can do it either way ... suggest you go buy yourself a re-recordable cd (assuming your recorder is capable) or some cheapie CDR disks to 'experiment' with..

Its not very difficult, but thats dependant on just what we want to make (& from what !)

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**sethfp** · March 6th, 2004, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

You can do it either way ... suggest you go buy yourself a re-recordable cd (assuming your recorder is capable) or some cheapie CDR disks to 'experiment' with..

Its not very difficult, but thats dependant on just what we want to make (& from what !)

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Programs tend to insist on creating rescue disk sets, using an endless number of floppies--these could be done on CD? Have heard that floppy disks are being phased out? A bootable floppy just adds COMMAND.COM, so putting that and CD drivers on a CD-RW should work?

**confus-ed** · March 7th, 2004, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by sethfp

Programs tend to insist on creating rescue disk sets, using an endless number of floppies--these could be done on CD? Have heard that floppy disks are being phased out? A bootable floppy just adds COMMAND.COM, so putting that and CD drivers on a CD-RW should work?

Yup they have been trying to 'phase out floppies' for a long time ... 1.44 mb ain't so much use nowadays, but I shouldn't panic, they are still pretty common & will remain among us for a while yet ...

Bootable floppies 'do it' 3 different ways, either emmulating floppy or hard-disk, or using a boot image which you copy from another source like your windows cd, just whats best for you, as I said depends, on what we are 'up to' .. which was why I said 'experiment'

Bart's way to create bootable CD-Roms (for Windows/Dos) - 'far too much info !'

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