How to create a boot disk?

[Eric]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create a boot disk? so I can
connect with my Portable USB HDD for accessing files.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

 

[Bob I]

What kind of Boot disk? Try this link.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bootdisk.com&aq=0&oq=bootdisk

 

[Mark Adams]

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create a boot disk? so I can
connect with my Portable USB HDD for accessing files.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Why not just plug the USB cable into an available USB port and use Windows
to view the files directly? Just kidding--- you obviously have some other
problem that you are not telling us about that is keeping you from viewing
your files. Use a Knoppix Live CD. Download from www.knopper.net Download the
iso image and burn to CD. Boot from the disk, it runs much like Windows, you
should be able to view your files on the external disk. If Windows won't
boot, you should be able to read and copy data off the hard drive as well----
as long as the hard drive itself hasn't failed.

 

[Eric]

XP is crashed, therefore I need a boot disk to backup all C: drive all or
selected folders before re-installing XP.
When I go to http://archive.cs.stedwards.edu/knoppix/, there are so many
version of Knoppix, should I download the latest version?
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso 03-Jan-2007 18:58 696M
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.md5.asc 04-Jan-2007 21:15 1k
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.sha1.asc 04-Jan-2007 21:15 1k

Once I download it, and copy it into a DVD, what shall I do?
Have you try this tools before? Will it be a good tools to backup any files
when XP is crashed?
I look forward to your reply
Thanks everyone very much for suggestions
Eric

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

I don't think you understand what a "boot disk" is, Eric.

 

[Eric]

"Download the iso image and burn to CD. Boot from the disk, it runs much like
Windows, you should be able to view your files on the external disk."

Do I just follow what it said? then I should be able to view files on the
external disk.
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
I try it first
Eric

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

You don't "backup all C: drive [and] all or selected folders" to the boot
disk.

 

[Eric]

When I download from www.knopper.net Download the iso image and burn to CD.
Boot from the disk, When I unzip iso image, and copy all files and
sub-directories into CD. but the disk cannot boot. Should I create a bootable
disk by Nero Express and unzip iso image, and copy all files and
sub-directories into CD?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I waste 3 CD already
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
Eric

 

[Eric]

When I refer to boot disk, I mean bootable CD.
I am using Nero Express, should I create a bootable CD and unzip the iso
image and copy all files and sub-directories into it? or should I unzip the
iso image and copy all files and sub-directories into it? and assume that
those files within folder is bootable?
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank everyone very much for any suggesitons
Eric

You don't "backup all C: drive [and] all or selected folders" to the boot
disk.

"Download the iso image and burn to CD. Boot from the disk, it runs much
like Windows, you should be able to view your files on the external disk."

Do I just follow what it said? then I should be able to view files on the
external disk.
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
I try it first
Eric

 

[Paul]

When I download from www.knopper.net Download the iso image and burn to CD.
Boot from the disk, When I unzip iso image, and copy all files and
sub-directories into CD. but the disk cannot boot. Should I create a bootable
disk by Nero Express and unzip iso image, and copy all files and
sub-directories into CD?
Does anyone have any suggestions?
I waste 3 CD already
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
Eric

http://ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix/

-r--r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 730177536 Jan 04 2007 KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso

Your download should be a 700MB file, with file extension ".iso".

You use Nero, and the function that burns an ISO9660 file to CD.
Or, select another CD burning tool that understands and parses ISO9660 files.

For example, I have Nero Express Essentials. I select "Image/Project/Copy"
and in the center pane "Disc Image or Saved Project". When the file
dialog is presented, I change the "Files of Type" field to
"Image files (.nrg, .iso, .cue, .img)". That should allow
all ISO9660 files in the current directory to be selectable.
You then burn the file selected (KNOPPIX.iso) . Nero parses the ISO9660
and prepares a bootable CD from it.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Eric]

Thank everyone very much for suggestions
The next step is to use GHOST.exe to restore the image.
If there is no floppy disk on Notebook, and I need to boot up the computer
and run Ghost.exe under DOS mode and restore the image.gho. The image.gho
could be in external HDD through USB. Therefore, when I boot up the computer
from CD, it can recognize all drives and external HDD drive to restore the
image.gho under DOS mode.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create a CD to do it?
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
Eric

 

[Eric]

Thank everyone very much for suggestions
Once I backup all files, the next step is to format the C: drive, which
contains virus, and re-install XP. Can it format C: within Knoppix? which is
Linus and not for Window. Or should I reboot the computer from a bootable CD?
how to create this bootable CD and run format.exe under DOS mode? When I
create a bootable CD using Nero Express, the DOS mode is weird, C: drive is
missing. I have a Window 98 Boot Disk, when I boot from this floppy disk, all
drives can be seen, and I can run format.exe and ghost.exe under DOS mode
with no problem, but I get no idea on how to transfer all required files from
this 98 bootable floppy dish into CD, and make this bootable CD work the same
way as 98 bootable floppy disk.
Does anyone have any suggestions or other approaches?
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
Eric

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Got Google?

http://www.google.com/search?q=how+...d=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

When I refer to boot disk, I mean bootable CD.
I am using Nero Express, should I create a bootable CD and unzip the iso
image and copy all files and sub-directories into it? or should I unzip
the
iso image and copy all files and sub-directories into it? and assume that
those files within folder is bootable?
Do you have any suggestions?
Thank everyone very much for any suggesitons
Eric

You don't "backup all C: drive [and] all or selected folders" to the boot
disk.

"Download the iso image and burn to CD. Boot from the disk, it runs much
like Windows, you should be able to view your files on the external
disk."

Do I just follow what it said? then I should be able to view files on
the
external disk.
Thank everyone very much for any suggestions
I try it first
Eric

:

I don't think you understand what a "boot disk" is, Eric.

Eric wrote:
XP is crashed, therefore I need a boot disk to backup all C: drive all
or
selected folders before re-installing XP.
When I go to http://archive.cs.stedwards.edu/knoppix/, there are so
many
version of Knoppix, should I download the latest version?
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso 03-Jan-2007 18:58 696M
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.md5.asc 04-Jan-2007 21:15 1k
KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso.sha1.asc 04-Jan-2007 21:15 1k

Once I download it, and copy it into a DVD, what shall I do?
Have you try this tools before? Will it be a good tools to backup any
files
when XP is crashed?
I look forward to your reply
Thanks everyone very much for suggestions
Eric

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to create a boot disk? so I
can
connect with my Portable USB HDD for accessing files.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric

Why not just plug the USB cable into an available USB port and use
Windows
to view the files directly? Just kidding--- you obviously have some
other
problem that you are not telling us about that is keeping you from
viewing
your files. Use a Knoppix Live CD. Download from www.knopper.net
Download
the iso image and burn to CD. Boot from the disk, it runs much like
Windows, you should be able to view your files on the external disk.
If
Windows won't boot, you should be able to read and copy data off the
hard
drive as well---- as long as the hard drive itself hasn't failed.

 

[Twayne]

I don't think you understand what a "boot disk" is, Eric.

Then, why don't you tell him what a boot disk IS, and what he might
need?

Twayne`

 

[John John - MVP]

You probably don't want to use the 'noram' varieties, things may be
pretty slow without a RAM drive. In any case I really doubt that these
ISO images contain any USB drivers, these were not standard drivers
during the DOS/W9x days, unless specially built no startup diskette ever
came prepackaged with USB drivers.

This is getting increasingly complicated. Now you will have to find the
Motto Hairu (AKA Panasonic) DOS USB drivers and you will have to modify
the Autoexec.bat file and Config.sys files, in essence you will have to
build your own bootable CD, or you will have search the internet to see
if you can find an already made ISO image with the drivers included.
Making a DOS boot floppy with modified Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files
is simple and easy to do, making a bootable CD is not! This is a pretty
complicated business!

At this point my suggestions would be:

1- Install Ghost on a Windows XP installation and use it to create the
Ghost boot disk. I'm not sure if your Ghost version will support USB
storage devices, you will have to do your research on that. If you have
a spare hard disk you can 'slap' an XP installation on it and then
install Ghost and create the CD. There is no need to get fancy with the
XP installation or to bother activating it, this is an installation that
you will use for a single purpose, to create a Ghost boot disk, once you
are done with your project you can just format the disk.

2- Buy a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapter and then mount the laptop disk in a
desktop, now everything will be on the desktop's IDE channels and you
should be able to restore the Ghost image without too much trouble.
Most computer shops have these 2.5" to 3.5" IDE adapters on hand and
they only cost about $4, I think this might be the simplest solution.

John