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Is there a way to convert a floopy boot program into a cd that boots?

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Intelman07

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There is this disk manager on a floopy I have. Most of my machines do not have a floopy (find them useless 1.44MB of data is not enough). I was wondering if this disk manger could be put on a cd and boot. How would i do this?
 
If you've already got the floppy, most CD burning software has a "make bootable CD" option, which can use that floppy as the source, and copies the image of the floppy to the CD. Then when you boot, the "floppy" data is the A drive on the system, while any other files you put on the disk becomes a normal CD drive letter (if the floppy loads CD drivers of course).
 

Yep.. nero, roxio and most of the biggies have an option to create a bootable cd from floppy. After you get it made, just put a 2nd session on the disc to add any other data you want to fill up the CD. Note: depending on how you do it, anything on the floppy that you use to create the CD is not usually available after the boot sequence finishes. Typically you'll just want to have a boot floppy that has the necessary cdrom drivers.
 
The boot region of the disk should always appear as the A drive after booting is done (since the boot files have to continue to be accessible). I can't imagine any way of doing it that would make the files inaccessible after boot completes.
 
Here's exactly how I made a bootable CD with WinXP to flash a motherboard BIOS:

Format the floppy, adding "System Files".

Make any needed changes to files on the floppy.

Start Nero Burning Rom.

Select "CD-ROM (BOOT)".

Use the floppy as boot file source, then drag the floppy drive into the "burn" folder.

 
We assumed that the disk you had was a bootable disk. If it's not, then you just need to make a bootable floppy disk, use that to make the boot image on the CD, and copy the contents of the disk manager floppy to the CD at the same time.
 
Not a file. Point Nero to the A drive after selecting CDROM (boot). Don't select a particular file, just the A drive which is in the dropdown list.
 
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