What would it take to create a program like this?

[Nocturnal]

I'm looking to create my own bootable CD. What I'd like to have on this
bootable CD is all the major hard drive manufacture's diagnostic utilities.
I was wondering how hard of a programming project this would be? I just
want a basic interface after booting from a CD. Just something to select
whatever tool necessary, from there, have the program start.



What programming language would best suite this type of program? Is this
something a novice could easily do or does it take a lot of programming
knowledge since I'm asking for it to have a GUI and be bootable. Is there
open source code available out there that would help me in this endeavor?



Thanks in advance!

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Nocturnal.

Certainly not a program language that uses the OS and as dotNet even a layer
on that the Net Framework.

In my opinon is it even not a Microsoft question. Because all products from
Microsoft mean that there is already an OS placed on the computer.

You can try it in a Win32 newsgroup, although that it already after the
point of the boot. However you never know, they are more to that point than
this newsgroup.

I hope this helps so far.

Cor

 

[Guest]

well save yourself the trouble as these tools are already there ( and free )

http://www.startdisk.com/
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

i guess the best language would be C in this case

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]