Making a bootable CD without a floppy drive

[pm]

I'm running Windows XP Pro and I need to get to a DOS prompt. Nearly every site that has instructions on making a boot CD starts off by saying "first make a boot floppy". I don't have a floppy drive, but I need to boot to DOS - is there a way to make a boot CD that will take me to DOS (or DR-DOS) that doesn't involve a floppy drive?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Insidious]

Easy CD Creator (V5.x) will let you make a bootable CD (choice of floppy or Hard Disk emulation)

 

[Luke727]

download a boot floppy image from bootdisk.com and use that to make your bootable cd.

 

[pm]

Thanks for the suggestions!

Great site, Luke727. That was exactly what I was looking for. I have Nero burning a boot CD right now. Thanks very much for your help.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i was looking to do the same thing once, but all i found at bootdisk.com was exe's that asked you to insert a floppy!

i guess i didnt look hard enough 😛

 

[CTho9305]

if its one of the text-based EXEs you're SOL, but if its a gui, they usually have checkboxes so you can just extract the image, or the files contained in it. I extracted the image to an IMZ, used winimage to make it an IMA, then made my 98se-DOS bootdisk. haven't used my floppy drive in a while 🙂

 

[LordEdmond]

look in the how to on this page


works fine under xp so dont get upset with the title

Linky

 

[pm]

I ended up doing exactly what CTho said. It extracted a .IMZ and I used Winimage to make that a .IMA and then burned that with Nero and then booted off of that.

Thanks for the suggestions.