Re: Boot To Dos CDROM

"Mark" <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Gary. I'm surprised you are still lurking in this NG, Vista
newsgroups seems to have stolen the good gurus. Glad you are still
available to help out.

I just copied the ISO to a CD, now I see why that didn't work. I found
out that I have to use my Nero to make a bootable CD. That worked. Now,
I have a bootable CD with the Ultimate Boot CD ISO, but can't see or use
any of the options.

I've used XP repair, works good, so I'd better just stay with that method.
I had hoped to have all of the repair options on a bootable CD so I can
repair PCs for folks in my computer club, so I don't have to carry a list
of the commands...fixboot, fixmbr, sfc scanonce, all of those goodies.

Those are all on stock XP boot disks via the recovery console, but, sfc will
require the correct type of CD and will ask for the disk. It checks files
between the hard disk and the install CD, so you can't make a generic disk
to use sfc; you need the correct disk type for that machine.

However, you can use any bootable XP disk to get into the recovery console
and run many of the other commands.


HTH
-pk



"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in message
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Not sure, but one thing you say gives me pause: Did you simply copy the
ISO files to CD or did you use a utility that is intended to properly
place the image (contents of the ISO file) onto the CD.

Note that DOS is pretty much useless for working on Windows XP systems,
especially if the partitions are formatted in NTFS. In fact, FIXBOOT
isn't a DOS function at all. What you need is to boot to a Windows XP
installation CD and use the Repair Console, or, I suppose, use a BartPE
CD or similar.

Lastly, while you say you can boot to the CD, it doesn't sound like
you're actually succeeding when you describe the process. Are you sure
your system is even trying to boot to the CD? Is your BIOS boot sequence
properly arranged to have the CD boot before the HD?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Mark" <marco@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm burning a lot of worthless CDs trying to make one to boot to DOS (no
floppy drive available).

I've downloaded several programs to boot to DOS, unzipped them, and
burned the iso to a CD. When I boot to the CD I get the Hardware
Profile Configuration Recovery Menu, which shows Profile 1...no other
option except to boot to last good config, etc. When I hit enter it
boots to XP.

I need a CD ROM that will allow me to boot to DOS to run the various
fixmbr, fixboot commands, when trying to repair a PC that has a
corrupted hard drive.

I must be too dense, the CDs have the ISO image, and I am booting to the
CD. TIA







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