Creating a Bootable CD with CD rom support and Firewire Card Support

[bdrph]

Greetings,

I am interested in making a bootable disk with support for my external firewire hard drive which I have plugged into a firewire card in my computer. I would like to be able to access this drive from DOS with a bootable disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

William

 

[J1600B]

Norton Ghost comes with a wizard to create a boot disk with whatever support you require

But as far as I know Ghost won't run on XP.

 

[bdrph]

thanks for your reply. I should have mentioned that I am running XP Pro. Thanks!

 

[darktubbly]

You might want to check this page for instructions on Firewire access from DOS. You don't necessarily need a GHOST boot disk, a recent Win98SE one from here will do just fine. Note that if your drive is partitioned as NTFS, you won't be able to read it from DOS without additional software.

 

[bdrph]

thanks for your reply...will check it out and let you know.

 

[tyanni]

Ghost definitely runs in XP. At least the latest version does.

 

[bdrph]

Thanks for all your replies. I found a zip file which allows one to boot using Dos drivers for Iomega USB devices as well as for Firewire. Just unzip to floppy and your done. I also got a copy of Ghost 2003 and created a boot disk as well. For those interested...here is the link.

http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/

Thanks..

William