Re: Boot to recovery disk
From: cquirke (MVP Win9x) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 12/29/04
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 17:17:56 +0200
>"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
>> You are hopelessly entangling several conflicting products here. :>(
>> First, Microsoft did not write that Recovery Disk and does not know what
>> is on it. That's Toshiba's creation, so you'll have to deal with Toshiba
>> on any question about that.
Well, sorta. Those who buy bland lame systems are stuck with these
recovery disks, which MS finds acceptable as licensed product. The
OEM is responsible for support, as always with OEM MS software, but
nonetheless it's the OS that MS wrote.
>> Second, Windows ME is based on MS-DOS. It knows NOTHING about Windows XP.
WinME isn't "based on DOS" any more than Win95 was; the relationship
to DOS is more complex than that.
>> Why are you booting into MS-DOS?
Possibly because XP as a CD-booted OS is too useless to do what he
wants to do, such as create FAT32 partitions > 32G? Or is your line
that if XP can't do it, you don't need it?
The above is VERY likely to apply with the crippleware OEM recovery
CDs, which are likely to give the user no chance to create any sort of
custom partitioning at all, or use a response file to customise the
installation process (e.g. avoid default OS path, etc.).
>> Third: What is your WinXP problem? I can't tell from your post. You
>> start out by telling us how you've tried to fix...something...but you
>> never say what was wrong in the first place. Or maybe it was in there
>> somewhere, but I missed it. Why do you want or need to boot the Recovery
>> Disk?
*Now* you are making sense ;-)
>> you would have a better chance if you start at the beginning by telling us
>> clearly just what problem you are trying to solve.
Amen!
>> "Ray" <NoSpam-ray.ck.li@Gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>I tried to set up to boot the recovery disk without success using normal
>>>USB CD-ROM drive and looking forward to any assistance
>>>
>>> Hardware in use:-
>>> 1. Toshiba R150 NB
>>> 2. Bootable floppy drive
>>> 3. HP 8100 IDE CD Writer Plus + USB 2.0 to IDE adapter
>>>
>>> Software in use:-
>>> 1. Toshiba recovery disk
>>> 2. Create a bootable floppy disk using Windows XP Pro, Windows
>>> Explorer,
>>> format option of Create a MS-DOS startup disk.
>>> 3. Add ramfd.sys, usbaspi.sys, di1000dd.sys of Motto Hairu DOS Driver
>>> to the floppy disk making the total files as below:-.
>>> COMMAND.COM
>>> CONFIG.SYS
>>> DI1000DD.SYS
>>> DISPLAY.SYS
>>> EGA2.CPI
>>> EGA3.CPI
>>> EGA.CPI
>>> IO.SYS
>>> KEYB.COM
>>> KEYBOARD.SYS
>>> KEYBRD2.SYS
>>> KEYBRD3.SYS
>>> KEYBRD4.SYS
>>> MODE.COM
>>> MSDOS.SYS
>>> RAMFD.SYS
>>> USBASPI.SYS
>>> 4. Add following statements in the empty Config.sys file.
>>>
>>> device=ramfd.sys
>>> device=usbaspi.sys /r
>>> device=di1000dd.sys
What I don't see here, is a line in A:\Autoexec.bat that binds MSCDEx
to your CD-ROM driver (presumably di1000dd.sys ?). Without that, you
have extended BIOS support to the CD drive, but you haven't extended
OS support to use that drive. Try this...
1) Copy MSCDEX.EXE to A:
2) Edit this line in A:\CONFIG.SYS
device=di1000dd.sys /D:8CHRNAME
3) Add this line to A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
mscdex /D:8CHRNAME
>>> When power-on, the following message appeared:-
>>>
>>> Starting...
>>>
>>> RAM FD DRIVER Version 1.00
>>> Copyright(C) 2001 NOVAC Co.,Ltd.
>>> Media type : 2HD - 1.44MB
>>> Data copy completion.
>>> Device driver installed.
>>> ASPI for UHCI/OHCI USB mass-storage Version 1.07
>>> Copyright(C) 2001 NOVAC Co.,Ltd.
>>> ID:0 LUN:0 = HP CD-Writer+ 8100 1.0g
>>>
>>> DI1000 ASPI DISK Driver Ver 2.00
>>> Copyright(C)2001 NOVAC C0.,Ltd.
>>>
>>> Available ID = Not found installable device.
Missing /D: parameter?
>>> Microsoft(R) Windows Millennium
>>> (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.
>>>
>>> A:\>_
>>>
>>> It seems the driver is working to recognise the HP CD-Writer. However, I
>>> could not instruct the computer to read the files in the CD-Writer. Can
>>> someone advise me how to make it work.
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