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Posted: 11th Aug 2004 16:59
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i am trying to make bootable cd's which emulate a hdd and i have all the images and all of the software for it just am having problems such as what is sector count ect ect


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Posted: 11th Aug 2004 18:10
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well there are image files that you can use when creating bootable cd's. Most burn applications (like nero) come with one preset. If you use that, you don't have to care about the sector count and so on... But remember, cd can't fully emulate HDD. You can't write to it!


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Posted: 12th Aug 2004 06:58 Edited at: 12th Aug 2004 06:59
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my problem is when i emulate a hdd it won't boot it will just say invalid system disk if i have it in a pc with no os or disable hdd boot but it won't start and the hdd i am emulating uses ms-dos6.22 to boot
but also has win 3.1 on it if anyone knows about stuff like sector count and making a bootable cd in roxio platinum 5 emulating an hdd then please post here
also for making image files i use undisker which says it makes image files out of cd,hdd,and floppy and will make bootable images also

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Posted: 13th Aug 2004 01:31
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search engines are wonderfull things when u use them.

but alas it requires reading and thinking


http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/41856/41856.html

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/howto/cdboot.html

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?id=160&object=article.cfm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xpehelp/html/xehowhowtoconfigureeltorito.asp

http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_installation_tips528.html

http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=7734&subsectionid=607

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Oh, have you thought about having to write to the cd? If you're trying to boot say windows from a cd it's gonna need write access I would have thought...
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Booting Windows from CD is possible, but it requires a brain, a lot of patience, hacking and testing. Check this out.

http://www.lachiesadicristo.it/w98cd/page1.htm
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

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Want to use a cd like a harddrive? Adaptec has DirectCD i think its called.

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directcd isn't bootable and i don't want to use it to store stuff like a hdd just emulate a hdd to boot from it and i never did say i wanted to boot windows i want to boot ms-dos or just about anything
but it never loads the cd

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perhaps your bios is not set to cdrom as the main boot priority.

usually u can boot from

floppy
cdrom
hard drive
network

set the cdrom first in your bios perhaps.

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already have

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then your commercial alternative is to use nortons ghost.

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nope, you just need to burn the cd properly..

You prolly can't do it with windows built in burning^_~ Try nero

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i use roxio easy cd creator platinum 5 i would use nero but they only support making a disc with floppy disk emulation
and i need to do it with a hdd emulation (all i want is ms-dos)

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