How Do I Create a Boot Disk?

[Craig Z]

I recently bought an old DOS based game (Zork Classics
from Infocom). Won't install on my Windows XP O/S. Tech
support told me to create a boot disk.

Any help on how to proceed with creating boot disk?

Thanks.

 

[Bob Eyster]

Place a blank diskette in your drive, right-click it and select format.
Select the option to copy system files to the diskette.

This will create a boot disk using Windows ME system files.

Bob Eyster

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You can create a limited boot disk from the Format menu for the floppy
drive. It will not have CD Support, nor will it support NTFS file systems.
You can also download the files needed to create a boot disk with CD
support, from www.bootdisk.com, but again, it won't support NTFS drives.

 

[Ken Blake]

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I recently bought an old DOS based game (Zork Classics
from Infocom). Won't install on my Windows XP O/S. Tech
support told me to create a boot disk.

Any help on how to proceed with creating boot disk?

I see that your question has already been answered, but I just
wanted to mention that I installed Zork 1 here a couple of months
ago without a problem. What does "Won't install on my Windows XP
O/S" mean? Please describe exactly what you did to try, and
exactly what happened. If you got an error message, please quote
it verbatim.

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

you can run the old zork games in windows by getting a program called
WinFrotz available from the author at http://www.cris.com/~Twist/

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

The original Zork games didn't install at all.. they were run from a 5 1/4"
diskette that they were booted from. I remember playing these back in the
early 80's and wasted lots of time with them.

I think that Infocom released a later version that installed on Win 3.1 and
later Win9x... But the best thing I have found is the WinFrotz program that
will play the Infocom text based adventure games... And it does install on
XP with no trouble at all.

 

[Ken Blake]

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The original Zork games didn't install at all.. they were run from a
5 1/4" diskette that they were booted from.

I remember playing these
back in the early 80's and wasted lots of time with them.

As did I. To this day, they remain my favorite computer games
(although I don't play them any more). Because they were
text-based, they left the visual settings to the imagination, and
to me the imagination is much richer than even the best computer
graphics.

I think that Infocom released a later version that installed on Win
3.1 and later Win9x...

That must have been what I remember and what I installed.

But the best thing I have found is the
WinFrotz program that will play the Infocom text based adventure
games... And it does install on XP with no trouble at all.

No, that's not what I installed on XP. It was just aZork 1
itslef, but I can't say what version.