Cannot make good ms-dos startup disk.

[R]

Hi,

I can't make a good MS-DOS startup disk (for BIOS flashing) from XP
SP2.

I select the "Make an MS-DOS startup disk" from the Format dialog.
Sometimes it gives up without a warning (i.e. the progress bar
resets itself and the "Start" button goes active again). Sometimes
it completes with a success message.

However the disks never boot. I get the following messages from the
BIOS (abbreviated a bit!):

Looking for boot record on floppy... OK

Disk I/O error. Insert new disk.
Disk I/O error. Insert new disk.

I've tried with a least 7 different floppy disks, all with the same
result. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to get it to work?
I've also tried to make a MS-DOS boot disk on a Windows 2000 machine
by downloading some freeware, but this does not work. I think the
floppy drive is OK because I can boot from a Linux floppy disk
(memtest86).

BTW: On the rare occasion the format appears to work, there is no
command.com, autoexec.bat or config.sys files showing on the disk.
I have changed the folder settings not to hide protected OS files.

TIA, R

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi,

I can't make a good MS-DOS startup disk (for BIOS flashing) from XP
SP2.

I select the "Make an MS-DOS startup disk" from the Format dialog.
Sometimes it gives up without a warning (i.e. the progress bar
resets itself and the "Start" button goes active again). Sometimes
it completes with a success message.

However the disks never boot. I get the following messages from the
BIOS (abbreviated a bit!):

Looking for boot record on floppy... OK

Disk I/O error. Insert new disk.
Disk I/O error. Insert new disk.

I've tried with a least 7 different floppy disks, all with the same
result. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to get it to work?
I've also tried to make a MS-DOS boot disk on a Windows 2000 machine
by downloading some freeware, but this does not work. I think the
floppy drive is OK because I can boot from a Linux floppy disk
(memtest86).

BTW: On the rare occasion the format appears to work, there is no
command.com, autoexec.bat or config.sys files showing on the disk.
I have changed the folder settings not to hide protected OS files.

TIA, R

You probably have a flakey floppy disk drive. Your Linux boot
does not prove much - it only reads the disk, it does not write it.

 

[S.Sengupta]

I guess your floppy drive is dirty.

regards,
ssg MS-MVP

 

[matsr]

Try a new Floppy Disk/Drive.

Pre-made Bootdisks can be found here:
http://www.bootdisk.com

 

[Jayso]

....and here is one i prepared earlier

hahahahaha, had to add that in, sorry

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