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[Robbie]

Floppy disks... the way to go forward!

A few years ago when my computer had a floppy disk drive I was able to create a startup disk that loaded things like ntldr from the floppy to be able to boot up the computer. All I had to do was change the startup sequence in the BIOS so the computer looked for a floppy disk drive first. I've just bought an external FDD and would like to recreate the same disk but I'm not sure what files I used to have as the emergency startup disk. Does anyone know which files should be there or can they point me to a website which has this information? Also, will the external (USB) FDD start as if it was an internal FDD and therefore I can change the BIOS settings if it was ever needed?

Thanks for any help!

[acooldozen]

May want to begin here..........

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&...-8&oe=utf-8

[Andavari]

I know you're looking for a bootable floppy disk, however making a bootable CD-R will result into a much faster bootup. Plus CD-R's are vastly more reliable over floppy disks in the long run since floppies can get bad sectors even if they aren't used.

[Robbie]

Andavari, on May 10 2007, 07:01 PM, said:

I know you're looking for a bootable floppy disk, however making a bootable CD-R will result into a much faster bootup. Plus CD-R's are vastly more reliable over floppy disks in the long run since floppies can get bad sectors even if they aren't used.

I tried to find a way to recreate the same boot disk using a CD disk but could never find how to do it... I thought it wasn't possible to re create a bootible floppy on CD...?

[Robbie]

oh, and if it is possible to create a bootable CD-R what files do I need?

Thanks!

[1200]

i don't know if this help but if it does not just look around the site, i am sure you will find what you need:http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/cdrom/

[Andavari]

Bootable CD's to my knowledge need a boot image created for them. Many CD/DVD burning software programs can do this for you automatically - so long as you have the boot disk files ready to go.