How do you make a boot disk?

[joe360]

How do you make a bootable cd with memtest?

 

[Jayczar]

Ultimate boot CD ISO includes memtest and a slew of other useful programs, definitely worth the download.

 

[Jeff7]

First, format a floppy disk - regular or quick, format, just so long as it's completely empty.

Download Pre-built & ISO's

Get the Pre-compiled package for Floppy. Decompress it all to a temp folder. There are 4 files there.
Double-click the Install.bat file.
Read what it says. Type in A: and press Enter. It'll create the bootable floppy. Just restart, and memtest will automatically start off the disk.

 

[joe360]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
First, format a floppy disk - regular or quick, format, just so long as it's completely empty.

Download Pre-built & ISO's

Get the Pre-compiled package for Floppy. Decompress it all to a temp folder. There are 4 files there.
Double-click the Install.bat file.
Read what it says. Type in A: and press Enter. It'll create the bootable floppy. Just restart, and memtest will automatically start off the disk.

Yeah I tired that but for some reason I get this error message:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. Thes system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Mircrosoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

Any ideas on fixing that?

 

[Navid]

When you go to download memtest, download the one for CD (ISO images suitable for creating a bootable Memtest86 CDROM).

Unzip what you downloaded only so that you end up with a file with a .iso extension. Do not uncompress the ISO image!

Then, use a utility that can burn an iso image on a CD. There are some free ones too if you do not have Nero or Easy creator.
You are done.

 

[joe360]

Originally posted by: Navid
When you go to download memtest, download the one for CD (ISO images suitable for creating a bootable Memtest86 CDROM).

Unzip what you downloaded only so that you end up with a file with a .iso extension. Do not uncompress the ISO image!

Then, use a utility that can burn an iso image on a CD. There are some free ones too if you do not have Nero or Easy creator.
You are done.

When I unzip it I end up with an .IMG?

On a side note, I hava an A64 system which memtest should I be using?

http://www.memtest.org/ (memtest +)
or
http://www.memtest86.com/ (memtest)

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: joe360

Originally posted by: Navid
When you go to download memtest, download the one for CD (ISO images suitable for creating a bootable Memtest86 CDROM).

Unzip what you downloaded only so that you end up with a file with a .iso extension. Do not uncompress the ISO image!

Then, use a utility that can burn an iso image on a CD. There are some free ones too if you do not have Nero or Easy creator.
You are done.

When I unzip it I end up with an .IMG?

On a side note, I hava an A64 system which memtest should I be using?

http://www.memtest.org/ (memtest +)
or
http://www.memtest86.com/ (memtest)

I have no experience with http://www.memtest.org/.

But, I do with http://www.memtest86.com/.
If you download the zip file for CD image from them and unzip it, you will end up with an iso image (memtest86-3.2.iso).

 

[Green Man]

Originally posted by: joe360


Yeah I tired that but for some reason I get this error message:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. Thes system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Mircrosoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

Any ideas on fixing that?

To fix this problem, you need to extract autoexec.nt_ from the i386 folder of your windows xp cd to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT

 

[joe360]

Originally posted by: Green Man

Originally posted by: joe360


Yeah I tired that but for some reason I get this error message:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. Thes system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Mircrosoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

Any ideas on fixing that?

To fix this problem, you need to extract autoexec.nt_ from the i386 folder of your windows xp cd to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT

Do you just copy and paste it from the cd into system32 and make a new folder and copy and paste it into a new folder called "autoexec.nt"...anyways i tried that and it still doesn't work

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: joe360

Originally posted by: Green Man

Originally posted by: joe360


Yeah I tired that but for some reason I get this error message:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT. Thes system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Mircrosoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application."

Any ideas on fixing that?

To fix this problem, you need to extract autoexec.nt_ from the i386 folder of your windows xp cd to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT

Do you just copy and paste it from the cd into system32 and make a new folder and copy and paste it into a new folder called "autoexec.nt"...anyways i tried that and it still doesn't work

New folder?
No new folder, it should be a file. I know that "extract" was once a DOS command, some kind of decompression thing or something remotely like that. But in this case, maybe just delete the existing autoexec.nt file in Windows\System32. Then copy and paste Autoexec.nt_ from the CD, and rename it, removing the "_" from the end. Maybe that'll work.

Because the error you're seeing isn't related to the downloaded file - that's a problem elsewhere in the system. Hopefully the file from the CD will fix it.

 

[RBauer]

did u run memtest in XP? that would explain the error?

 

[joe360]

Originally posted by: RBauer
did u run memtest in XP? that would explain the error?

Haven't runed it on XPyet..