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bootable diskette 19 Years Ago by dandimmitt I have a new hard drive and i think that i need to move it to the master position, and that i need a bootable diskette. How do i make a bootable diskette? thanks dan Re: Create a Boot XP diskette 19 Years Ago by pcschrottie Try this: Insert a diskette into your floppy drive, then go to 'My Computer' (the place where you see all your drives and HD's), right-click on your floppy drive, click 'format', then you can choose to "Create a msdos-diskette" (or similar). Michael Create a Boot XP diskette 19 Years Ago by javierjan Anyone knows how to create a bootable diskette through XP? If so, please send me your advice on how to do it. Thanks Re: Create a Boot XP diskette 19 Years Ago by caperjack [QUOTE=javierjan]Anyone knows how to create a bootable diskette through XP? If so, please send me your advice on how to do it. Thanks[/QUOTE] If you mean a set of winxp boot disks' you can download them [url=http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm]HERE.[/url] Using the boot diskette 17 Years Ago by elly da best Sometimes my machine asks for a boot diskette! I have them but the Ms Dos syntax is quite cumbersome. Can someone please give me the syntax. Its a p3 with windows 2000. Re: Create a Boot XP diskette 14 Years Ago by javierjan what about if there`s no diskette drive installled. Only CD drive/CD-ROm/DVD available. No HDD, cd-rom, dvd, or diskette drive 14 Years Ago by deadpc … drives. No Primary 0, 1; no secondary 0, 1; no diskette drive. I tried to boot on the recovery disk, but… Re: No HDD, cd-rom, dvd, or diskette drive 14 Years Ago by deadpc … just crazy that none of the drives (hdd, cd, dvd, diskette) are found. Any other ideas? Thank you! Creating a diskette .img file from scratch 14 Years Ago by agent154 … own .img file that can be mounted as a virtual diskette, but I do not know the command I need to… Re: bootable diskette 19 Years Ago by Catweazle dandimmitt, that question tells us very little I'm afraid, so I'd ask you to start over again. Tell us what you have there please. As much information about your system hardware as you can, and also what version of Windows you are using. It would help if we know what PC you have, what parts are in it, what you are trying to do, what is going … Re: bootable diskette 19 Years Ago by dandimmitt [QUOTE=Catweazle]dandimmitt, that question tells us very little I'm afraid, so I'd ask you to start over again. Tell us what you have there please. As much information about your system hardware as you can, and also what version of Windows you are using. It would help if we know what PC you have, what parts are in it, what you are trying to … Re: Using the boot diskette 17 Years Ago by TT4Titans first need to know what it is you are wanting to do when you ask for a syntax are you wanting to copy something install? if it ask for the boot disk why is it asking for the boot disk? The questions is to help us help you a little more detail makes it easier. Re: Create a Boot XP diskette 14 Years Ago by Bob_180_Bob Hi, Please tell us what it is you are trying to do. Do you want to boot your PC to dos via a CD or DVD? Do you want to boot your PC to start windows from a CD or DVD? What are you trying to do ? when we know what you are after, we may be able to assist. Re: No HDD, cd-rom, dvd, or diskette drive 14 Years Ago by Xlphos Do you hear any sound from the hdd when you turn the PC on? Have you got the CD drive and faulty hdd on the same cable? I doubt you be able to get the data back without paying a lot. Re: No HDD, cd-rom, dvd, or diskette drive 14 Years Ago by Bob_180_Bob Try resetting your BIOS by removing the motherboard battery for a few minutes (not seconds), replace, boot into "Set up" (see start up screen for your button to access) and check if the BIOS is now recognizing any drives now. If you get your PC going again, do not try and fix his, just copy off any information you can get. One way that … Re: No HDD, cd-rom, dvd, or diskette drive 14 Years Ago by Bob_180_Bob Unplug both ends of the leads going to the drives and re-seat ensuring a good fit. With the power it makes no difference where it comes from or goes to just as long as you have the correct type of lead plugged in. It is just about impossible to put the wrong power connector in the wrong devise. If that will not work, unplug the CD/DVD and try and … Re: Creating a diskette .img file from scratch 14 Years Ago by abhisek.sanyal Hi, Let us say you want to create a 10 Mb file system. Use dd to create a virtual disk image first. Example - "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/my.img bs=1k count=10000" That will create a image file of size 10 Mb ~ approximately (1k * 10000) Now to make it a FAT12 file system, use the command mkfs.vfat (or an equivalent tool in your … Re: Creating a diskette .img file from scratch 14 Years Ago by agent154 That did it.. thanks! How to install slackware (Not as easy as MEPIS) 17 Years Ago by mepnoob2005 …small version of it from diskette. The first diskette holds the Linux kernel and the other diskette holds the root filesystem. … also included. 4)The root disk is the second diskette needed to install Slackware Linux. This disk holds the … new Slackware system. Don't forget to remove the diskette from the drive though. Now what could be easier … hard drive and usb cdrw not recognized in DOS 20 Years Ago by novice … enabled Drive C: <Not Installed> Insert diskette for drive B: (what diskette???) and press any key when ready (action when… I press enter key) Insert diskette for drive A: (again what diskette???) and press any key when ready (action… question regarding an ATM program!! PLS.. 17 Years Ago by comp_sci11 … ATM program wherein a 3.5 floopy diskette would serves as the card of the user.… this diskette has a program wherein it has a account… a password. And when the user inserted a diskette, he will be instructed to input his password …user whether it tallies with the password of inserted diskette. I think that i need to use a… Website Planning Worksheet template 14 Years Ago by stevenpetersen …and return, or by sending the digitized images on a diskette. • We can also book appointments for professional photography shoots.…o Written content for your webpage’s (preferably on a diskette formatted for Microsoft Word for Windows [2.0, 6.…scan into electronic form. Even better, send us a diskette or ZIP disk with your graphics in any popular PC… Re: hard drive and usb cdrw not recognized in DOS 20 Years Ago by chanto! …. If you don't want to see the "Insert diskette for drive..." message, then go edit autoexec.bat on… UNIX Booting Probelm 19 Years Ago by sidhus02 … "Boot failure" and asks for a bootable Compaq Diskette which I dont have. Pls help me out and request… me know from where I can down load this bootable diskette or any why out. Thanx and Regards, Sidhu Bios Gone Bad 18 Years Ago by Fishbones … Bios image in hard drive Scanning Bios image in floppy diskette Can not find Bios image in hard drive or floppy… diskette! This problem was caused more than likely by myself, I … Formatted system drive but have no boot disk 17 Years Ago by joshmill … now only gives me the option to boot from the diskette drive but I don't have a boot disk. It… have no way to boot becuase I have no boot diskette. I have another version of Windows XP installed on my… problem 17 Years Ago by markbarrientos What i am going to do if i will start my computer and it says " Inser system diskette and press enter to continue" I dont know about system diskette.... pls help Problems booting up computer 17 Years Ago by B1exvq87 … anyone know how to fix this? Thanks Diskette Drive A:1.44m, 3.5 in. Diskette Drive B: None Pir. Master Disk… msvcrt.dll problem 16 Years Ago by tori … to add it using floppy, so I made a boot diskette, but when I start the machine using this floppy… diskette, I get to A:\> and when I try typing … Floppy Disk Seek Failure & Can't Access XP 15 Years Ago by glckl I received the follwoing error yesterday: "floppy diskette seek failure Strike the F1 key to continue....." I … able to get to the BIOS and and change the Diskette Drive to OFF from Internal and it seemed to work…