Welcome to my Emergency Bootdisk page - version 2.
I decided to update this page and make it as informative as possible,
since this is by far the page that's most helpful to people.
Here you'll find information and links to more information about how to
create an emergency disk that will help you if your hard-drive crashes,
when you want to do a fresh OS install (either on a newly purchased hard-drive
or you're reinstalling your OS), or you want to load up DOS to run some
old software or whatever.
I hope you find this information useful, and as always,
.
Third-party
Bootdisks
Check out these sites, they really do an excellent job!
Bootdisk.com (added 09/14/00)
I stumbled across this site. Looks like it offers bootdisks for many different
Operating Systems.
The DOS page (formerly
Ringw0rm's Techw0rm and the Boot-disk-of-life)
- updated 09/14/01
Wim Borghs informs me that he's moved to a new site. This site now has
a lot of info and links pertaining to DOS as well as the great boot disk.
LittleWhiteDog's
How-To (01/29/01)
This is a great page with lots of pictures - you should know exactly what's
going on after reading this article! I think this might be for WinME only,
but it should work regardless of the OS you run.
Ultimate boot disk
- (thanks Crossroads) 02/11/01
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but it looks like it has a lot of
features...
Know of any others,
.
Windows98
bootdisk - make a generic bootdisk from inside Win98
This one's a no-brainer, but may or may not work on your system/configuration
or with your CD-Rom drive.
1. Get a blank (preferrably new) 3.5" floppy disk ready.
2. Be sure you have your Win98 cd-rom hand and go to:
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Startup Disk
tab, press the Create Disk button
and follow the instructions.
3. Make sure it works:
Boot with this floppy.
Place a data cd-rom (Like your Win98 disc) in the
cd-rom drive.
At the dos-prompt, type "d:" - replace
d with whatever letter you have assigned to your cd-rom (this changes
the active directory to the cd-rom drive).
Then type "dir" you should see a listing
of the files contained on your cd-rom drive.
Type setup (or the name of an executable if you
have a disc other than the Win98 disc in the cd-rom).
If the setup program begins to run, exit it. Congratulations,
you have a working Emergency bootdisk. If at any point here you get
an error such as "invalid drive specification d" - you need
to modify your bootdisk or use a different method to make it.
WindowsNT
DOS-client startup disks
I definitely
want to put more information here. But first I have to learn how to do
it myself. For now, "peep" this very in-depth article over on
3Com's site. It will guide you through it:
3Com
Guide: WindowsNT DOS-client startup disks
NT startup disks for the 3c59x or 3c90x family of NICs but you can learn
what's going on and perhaps generalize to any NIC with the apropriate
drivers.
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