BOOT DISK

1. Making a boot disk

• Format a disk using WIN95 and copy the system to this disk.  This may be accomplished by either formatting the disk with the system Win95 or format /s from DOS prompt or just having a formatted disk in A drive and typing SYS A: from a DOS prompt. Then copy Format.com and Fdisk.exe from c:\windows\command to the new disk. It might also be an idea to copy any other utility you may want.   (Go here for Win98 Boot disk )

• Make an config.sys file on this disk. Preferably the following lines should be included

DEVICE=himem.sys

DEVICE=emm386.exe

DOS=high, umb

DEVICEHIGH=<your CD-ROM system driver> /D:MSCD000 

Note: MSCD001 is fine but it much match what is in autoexec.bat

Note: If you do not know where to find and do not have your CD-ROM drivers try Frank's Place to find the drivers.

You can normally find that one as remarked out in your existing Config.sys file

Note: If you cannot find one but have the disk that came with the CD-ROM, then you can boot dos use the disk to install the CD-ROM from dos and then you will find the the lines you need in the config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Remember you do need the driver file on your boot disk.

• Make a autoexec.bat file. The following line is needed in the autoexec.bat

MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000

You can normally find this file in your autoexec.bat file remarked out by win95 if you installed from a previous version of win. If not try running your CD-ROM setup disk and it will create these files in autoexec.bat and config.sys. Remark them out on the c drive. You do not want to use this driver with win95.

Now for the finish:

find the <your CD-ROM system driver > and copy it to the disk in A

Then copy the following files to A:

c:\windows\himem.sys

c:\windows\emm386.exe

c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe

C:\windows\command\sys.com

C:\windows\command\format.com

C:\windows\command\fdisk.exe

 

Some files that are nice to have but not necessary - I do recommend having them

Edit.com     - You may want the help file too.

Regedit.exe

scandisk.exe   - You may want the help file too.

Scandisk.ini

Attrib.exe     -May be useful at times

deltree.exe  - Sometimes useful. Do not remove \windows before \program files !!!!

IMPORTANT:

After completing these steps, please try to boot with this disk and make sure that your CD-ROM is accessible.

You should keep this disk in addition to the one being generated as an emergency disk by win95 during install

      

 

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Last revised: October 10, 1999.

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