[dirtwarrior]

I have ontrack diskmanager. The only option it has is to make a boot floppie. I want to make a bootable cd. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

[Jeremy]

Are you trying to create your own custom boot CD or just have one that will allow you to diagnose hardware?
Ultimate Boot CD 3.4
GeekSquad Boot CD
Reatogo Builder
... 3 good ones right there.

[allen2]

You could try to use vfd (which can emulate a virtual floppy disk) to create a floppy disk image. Then just burn it making a bootcd with nero (you're allowed to choose a floppy disk as boot). If vfd doesn't work on your system, you can use a real floppy then make and image with winimage (for example). Also if the cdrom doesn't boot using the previous method then you should use a cdrom bootloader like boot cd wizard or cdshell.

[Jeremy]

Screw floppies.

[dirtwarrior]

Jeremy, on Sep 9 2006, 04:50 PM, said:

Are you trying to create your own custom boot CD or just have one that will allow you to diagnose hardware?
Ultimate Boot CD 3.4
GeekSquad Boot CD
Reatogo Builder
... 3 good ones right there.

I have used ultimate boot cd but the other 2 I cant find much info on. Can the geek squad cd be bought at best buy? If so how much?

[Andromeda43]

Make your boot floppy,
then use Nero to make a bootable CD and use the floppy in A: as the
boot sector information. Nero will handle the rest. I do it all the time.
It's a piece of cake.

Andromeda43

[dirtwarrior]

My pc doesnt have a floppie drive. What do I do now?

[wizardofwindows]

u buy a usb floppy drive from radio shack for 30 bucks.

[Andromeda43]

A PC without a FD is like a new car with NO spare tire. It sort of leaves you hung out to dry.
Not a good situation.

If your PC, windows and Nero see the USB drive as A:, then you're OK. Otherwise you're just out $30.
your mobo will NOT see it as an A: drive however. At least most mobo's won't.

If you buy the USB floppy at a major supply store, like Wal-Mart or Staples, and it doesn't work for you, well, you can always take it back and get a refund.

I liked my one little FD so much I installed a second one (just to keep him company).
Now he don't get lonely any more.

I still install FD's for many of my customers who have a case that will take one, but none installed. For those who want a FD, but have no place to put one in their case, the USB floppy fills the bill nicely. Yeah, it's $30 compared to $10 for an internal FD. So if you have an open 3.5" drive bay, go for the internal model.

Maybe you have a friend with a FD and Nero that could make the CD for you? If you were here, I'd do it for you myself. It would only take a few minutes.

If I had the Diskmangler CD, I could make the boot CD, create an .iso file off'n it and put it on my download site where you could download it and then burn your own CD. But alas, I don't have the DM CD.

Sorry!

Andromeda43

PS: Someone will come up with a solution for you. They always do.

[Jeremy]

Andromeda43, on Sep 10 2006, 04:23 PM, said:

A PC without a FD is like a new car with NO spare tire. It sort of leaves you hung out to dry.
Not a good situation.

I don't agree with that at all. Neither of our systems here at home have floppy drives and we never have any need for one. You can download a boot CD and burn it as easily as making a floppy these days.
DirtWarrior, what is the purpose for the BootCD you want?

[dirtwarrior]

To do quick formats on some computers.

[Andromeda43]

Well, I'd sure not use Diskmangler!

There's much better ways, and more versatile ways too.

[dirtwarrior]

Andromeda43, on Sep 14 2006, 05:31 PM, said:

Well, I'd sure not use Diskmangler!

There's much better ways, and more versatile ways too.

disk manager is fast is there a better way that is fast?

[Jeremy]

Andromeda43, on Sep 14 2006, 06:31 PM, said:

Well, I'd sure not use Diskmangler!

There's much better ways, and more versatile ways too.

Here is another example, Andro. You mention there are better ways, yet you fail to specify what they are. That's what I was referring to in the order thread. A lack of information. Not flaming you, just letting you know, whether you do it intentionally or not.

[LLXX]

Jeremy, on Sep 10 2006, 04:07 PM, said:

Andromeda43, on Sep 10 2006, 04:23 PM, said:

A PC without a FD is like a new car with NO spare tire. It sort of leaves you hung out to dry.
Not a good situation.

I don't agree with that at all. Neither of our systems here at home have floppy drives and we never have any need for one. You can download a boot CD and burn it as easily as making a floppy these days.
DirtWarrior, what is the purpose for the BootCD you want?

If your mobo supports USB mass storage / HDD emulation, all is well without a floppy - you can use a USB drive instead. However SATA and RAID drivers seem to still come on floppies...

[Jeremy]

LLXX, on Sep 15 2006, 12:54 AM, said:

However SATA and RAID drivers seem to still come on floppies...

Not if you use nLite.

[CoffeeFiend]

Floppies? I have no use for those. None at all. Whatsoever. Haven't had one in any of my PCs since ~3 years ago and couldn't be happier (Actually, it's kept in a plastic bin somewhere in the basement, and hasn't ever been dug out of there for anything). Excruciatingly slow, ridiculously low capacity (a bit over a MB), unreliable, very low capacity per physical space occupied (like, as many cubic inches as a 2GB flash disk for 1.44MB worth), unconvenient, old piece of legacy junk. I still have a use for many old-ish things (I use serial and parallel ports almost everyday for example), but floppies?

No thanks!

[nitroshift]

dirtwarrior, on Sep 10 2006, 10:15 PM, said:

To do quick formats on some computers.

Have you tried Partition Magic?

[blackhaker]

burn this file to cd and u can use it


download

goto the cd in dos

" cd dm +enter"
"dm1 +enter"
and use the disk manager

This post has been edited by blackhaker: 21 September 2006 - 11:37 AM