how-to-make a bootable hard drive??

[anonymouschris]

working on modding an virgin webplayer internet appliance. i read through all the sites that teach you how to mod these things and have followed them thorougly; but i am stuck. i am having trouble making a bootable hard drive. i need to transfer all the files from my winme cd to my hard drive. the site that i went to said to do this:

xcopy /s e:\win98 c:\windows\options\cabs

well, i tried this but replaced the win98 with win_me, but the xcopy command is not recognized. furthermore the /s is not recognized as well. so i tried this command:

copy e:\ c:\windows\options\cabs

and although this time it copied, as expected the hard drive was not a bootable one. can anyone tell me exactly what i need to do to copy all the files necessary to make my hard drive bootable. also need it so that after it boots i can install windows me without the cd.

thanks!

 

[HalfCrazy]

The easy way would to try copying the 'files' off a win98se bootup disk and put them on the hdd. Then the hdd should be bootable.. Right.

 

[MSantiago]

The point of xcopy /s is that it recursively copies all subdirectories too. With the copy command you typed in, you only copied over the root directory of the CD. My advice would be to make a bootable floppy and copy xcopy.exe onto it. You should be able to find xcopy.exe in the \windows\command directory of any win95, 98, or me system.

To make a drive bootable, just boot from a windows boot disk and type in sys c:

 

[anonymouschris]

sys c: was the command i was looking for i think. dos is a vague memory, so thanks for the help and reminder. much appreciated!

 

[hans007]

you have to make it "active" in fdisk.


check if you did that.