Creating bootCD with Nero WITHOUT having a floppy drive?

[onelin]

Can someone tell me if this can be done? I found an NTFS boot floppy creator, made a floppy (on the one computer in my house that has a floppy drive still), mapped it over the network, fired up Nero, and tried making a bootable CD. I can take an image of the floppy and transfer it over fine I'm sure...but Nero wants a real floppy drive from the look of it.

Am I SOL?

This is driving me nuts, as I have a winxp box to reinstall and I want to install it onto NTFS but windows has notoriously NOT enjoyed doing this for me and I really don't want to turn it into fat32 and then convert it again.

If Nero can't do it, can anyone point me towards a free utility that can?

*edit* I'm an idiot, the WinXP pro bootable CD does what I need. I'd still like to know how to do this, though...as I plan on making a new boot CD with all of my drivers and such...

 

[kt]

Since you have the Windows XP Pro bootable CD, you may extract the boot sector from the CD. There are tools out there that let you do that. Here's a free tool you can use to extract the boot sector from your XP CD, link.

Once you got the boot sector, you can use it to make a customized Windows XP bootable CD using Nero.

 

[crapito]

if you have an "image" of a bootable floppy, then Nero won't need a real floppy. WinImage can make floppy images. if you want, I can email you my custom Win98SE floppy image that I use when making bootable Ghost cds.

 

[ugh]

Why not try going to http://bootdisk.com and grep a copy of one of the boot disks images there?