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How to make a bootable CD

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benjamat

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Sorry if this is a bit basic but one of my sons macines needs the DVD bios updated and as there is no floppy in this system my question is how do I make a bootable CD.

Win XP does not seem to allow me to do this and I have heard there are problems making a boot disc with nero.

I would be very gratefull for any suggedtions.
 
i had this problem before when updating a BIOS, i think i just downloaded an image from bootdisk.com opened it in WinISO or some other iso program and added the files I needed, burned it in NERO and worked fine. Google helped alot too 🙂
 
If you use one of the newer versions of Nero, there is an option to burn an iso image file. Just copy your win98 boot disk file to the cd project and select that option. Roxio and other programs might do it to.
 
If you go here Bootdisk.com you can download an iso image that should do what you want. Scrole down the page to the "Bootable cd" section. Download the ISO, open it with wni iso or similar program(don't extract it), copy the flash files to it, and then burn it.
 

Sorry, the saga continues.

I have made a boot disc using Nero 6 and it starts the computer fine but in some sort od floppy-A emulation mode.

The problem is that it does not show the other files I have on the disc for flashing the DVD drive firmware.

I have never come across this before.

Gratefull for any thoughts.
 
You will have to load the dos cdrom drivers from the floppy image on the cd. I know it sounds strange but you are emulating a flopy disk. The bios has just enough smarts to read the image and load it like it was a floppy drive. Think of it like you were actually using a floppy drive. I use a win 98 boot floppy for my floppy images. When it boots from the floppy image I then get the "start pc with cd-rom suport" option. When I use that option it loads mscdex, etc and I can then browse the cd and run programs on it.
 
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