Boot cd

[Craig]

Where is a good source for creating /buying a bootable cd for ntfs. I have
tried a few freebies(barts,etc) they dont boot at all.

thanks

cr

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

What do you mean by "bootable CD for ntfs"? There are many products out
there that can boot from CD and give you access to your ntfs file system.
What features are you looking for (and which freebies did you try that
didn't work for you).

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: Where is a good source for creating /buying a bootable cd for ntfs. I
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: tried a few freebies(barts,etc) they dont boot at all.
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: thanks
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: cr
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[Keith Jakobs, MCP]

Hi Craig,

Any program that you have found that works for reading NTFS partitions from
a boot floppy should work fine. Once you have found such a program you are
happy with, you will need to create a Bootable CD from that floppy using a
CD-burning program such as Roxio EZ-CD Creator or Nero Burn.

The format you need to follow is called 'El Torrito' which defines how to
create a bootable CD by creating bootimage files on the CD. Most of this is
transparent to you if you use one of the above programs and tell it to
create a Bootable CD.... the program will ask you to insert a bootable
floppy disk, and it will make a bootable CD from that bootable floppy disk,
along with any additional files you wish to include on the CD.

Hope that helps.

Keith C. Jakobs, MCP