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how to make a floppy disk bootable?
Name: Kerry Date: February 19, 2000 at 13:47:40 Pacific
Comment:
I would to know how to make a floppy disk bootable. Project: trying to load a cd-rom driver: Mashita CR-581-M
Name: Support Date: February 19, 2000 at 13:51:56 Pacific
Reply:
Going to provide you with a link as the instructions are fairly lengthy...
http://www.computerhope.com/help/cdr.htm
Instructions are found on the bottom of the page
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Response Number 2
Name: unisol Date: February 21, 2000 at 02:21:30 Pacific
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Maybe c:\>sys c: a: ?
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Response Number 3
Name: Support Date: February 22, 2000 at 03:51:08 Pacific
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We appologize we must have read without thinking about what we read first, the above link is information on how to make a disk autoload in Windows 95 / 98, if you would like to make it bootable from MS-DOS unisol is correct:
Sys a:
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Response Number 4
Name: dosrules Date: February 27, 2000 at 11:10:30 Pacific
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try sys a:
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Response Number 5
Name: chris Date: February 28, 2000 at 14:08:15 Pacific
Reply:
Hi
Check you C:\Dos\>Help to learn about you Dos C:\>format A: /s
or visit www.bootdisk.com
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Response Number 6
Name: Leana Date: October 31, 2000 at 07:42:29 Pacific
Summary: i have a Adaptec AIC-7890 SCSI card and have a primary NTFS partition. as i want to use ghost to make a backup so i need a boot disk that can read NTFS partition....
Summary: Yes you can, but because CD is read only, you have to make sure your Temp and, so on, are on a RAM DisK or a networked drive. The process of making the disk isn't too hard. You'll need to install DR-D...
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installing dos 5.0
