Re: How to create a boot disk?

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

Eric wrote:
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

"Paul" wrote:

Eric wrote:
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

"Mark Adams" wrote:

"Eric" wrote:

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.
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