Possible to alter a boot CD?

[Gillbot]

I have a boot CD I made for use with norton ghost but after switching to a SATA DVD drive, it no longer works. I don't have a floppy drive so creating a new one is quite a chore. Is it possible for me to alter and reburn my current disk? If so, how do I get to the boot partition to get it off and alter it.

 

[Blazer]

make sure your sata dvd drive is in the "boot from" menu, pressing f12 at start-up should bring it up aslo.

of coarse thats if the sata drivers are on your boot disk, they should be.

 

[NoelS]

Gillbot,

A CD boot disk can be made from a floppy of the older Windows 98 boot disk. If you don't have a floppy drive, you need 2 things: 1, a friend that does; and 2 a copy of the old Windows 98 boot floppy. Just make sure you make a bootable CD with those Windows 98 files on it

Otherwise, copy the files from the Norton CD and put the ones you need on another CD. But the Windows 98 floppy does a better job.

Noel

EDIT: Here are the files I have on my boot CD. They are in a folder named 3 1/2 Floppy (A_)

3½ Floppy (A_)
=================

ATTRIB.exe
AUTOEXEC.bat
COMMAND.com
CONFIG.sys
CWSDPMI.exe
DEBUG.bat
DISK_SIM.cfg
EDIT.com
EMM386.exe
ERD1.sys
ERD2.sys
FDISK.exe
FORMAT.com
HEAD0.dat
HIMEM.sys
IO.sys
MEM.exe
MODE.com
MSDOS.sys
part240.exe
part244.exe
part244sim.exe
readme240.txt
readme244.txt
SCANDISK.exe
SCANDISK.ini
SMARTDRV.exe
SYS.com
WRPROG.exe

Hope that helps. Not all are necessary I'm sure and I added some, like format.com, that I wanted on it.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: blazer
make sure your sata dvd drive is in the "boot from" menu, pressing f12 at start-up should bring it up aslo.

of coarse thats if the sata drivers are on your boot disk, they should be.

I don't believe they are there, hence my need to alter it.

Originally posted by: NoelS
Gillbot,

A CD boot disk can be made from a floppy of the older Windows 98 boot disk. If you don't have a floppy drive, you need 2 things: 1, a friend that does; and 2 a copy of the old Windows 98 boot floppy. Just make sure you make a bootable CD with those Windows 98 files on it

Otherwise, copy the files from the Norton CD and put the ones you need on another CD. But the Windows 98 floppy does a better job.

Noel

EDIT: Here are the files I have on my boot CD. They are in a folder named 3 1/2 Floppy (A_)

3½ Floppy (A_)
=================

ATTRIB.exe
AUTOEXEC.bat
COMMAND.com
CONFIG.sys
CWSDPMI.exe
DEBUG.bat
DISK_SIM.cfg
EDIT.com
EMM386.exe
ERD1.sys
ERD2.sys
FDISK.exe
FORMAT.com
HEAD0.dat
HIMEM.sys
IO.sys
MEM.exe
MODE.com
MSDOS.sys
part240.exe
part244.exe
part244sim.exe
readme240.txt
readme244.txt
SCANDISK.exe
SCANDISK.ini
SMARTDRV.exe
SYS.com
WRPROG.exe

Hope that helps. Not all are necessary I'm sure and I added some, like format.com, that I wanted on it.

I don't have a floppy drive anymore and it was a hassle making this disk w/o one in the first place. That's why i'd prefer to alter it instead of start fresh.

 

[Gillbot]

Guess i'm gonna have to start over?

 

[NoelS]

Gillbot, Here's what I said earlier: "If you don't have a floppy drive, you need 2 things: 1, a friend that does; and 2 a copy of the old Windows 98 boot floppy. Just make sure you make a bootable CD with those Windows 98 files on it.

Still true...

Noel

 

[zetsway]

If you don't have a floppy drive then you can make a virtual one for free.

 

[Twista]

jut buy one =]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16821104001

or get one from an old computer

 

[htne]

Ooops! I didn't read the original post closely enough. Try going into CMOS setup and changing the SATA controller from AHCI to IDE mode. That may be all you need.

A program like WinImage can manipulate floppy disk images (extension ".ima"). You can find floppy disk boot images on the net (use google to search). I'm not sure what driver you need for a SATA DVD drive.

 

[NoelS]

htne,

That's a great thought... It probably is the answer the OP was looking for. I'm glad to have that answer for possible future use...

Noel

 

[htne]

The driver on this page might also be helpful:

http://marktsai0316.googlepages.com/gcdromfordos