Boot disk... Urgent!

[quadboi]

Hey guys..
Right, I need a bootdisk well be told by someone, so I can fool my cd to be

A drive (Floppy)

Because, when I put my cd rom in it says A:\

So, I guess I need a bootdisk to search the cd ....

Guys please direct me in the right direction

 

[benjo plz.]

what?

 

[Oracle]

Thats what I was thinking!???

are you talking about the Icon for the A drive in 'My Computer'!?

 

[singist]

Go away and think what you really want help with, then use English for your request, and you might well find someone willing to help you.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

A dissection:

Hey guys..
Right, I need a bootdisk well be told by someone, so I can fool my cd to be

A drive (Floppy)

At this point I thought I knew what sjohal wanted. I thought he wanted to reassign the Windows/MS DOS drive letter "A" to his CD-ROM drive.

Because, when I put my cd rom in it says A:\

This threw me off becasue now it sounds as if the CD-ROM drive is already assigned to letter A.

So, I guess I need a bootdisk to search the cd ....

This sounds like another thing entirely. this made me think he wanted to boot his computer to a MS DOS bootable floppy, then use that to navigate his CD-ROM drive.

Can anybody interpret?

 

[vanandjuanunited]

Gonna go with he needs a boot disk but thinks its a cd rather than a floppy.

 

[bledd]

tell us what you are trying to do..

you can get bootable cd's by the way, its not just floppy and hard drives

 

[quadboi]

Im sorry, ver ysorry was in a bit off a rush sorry, I have not been here for 2 days (Psu blew)

Right, Its alright im sorry for wasting your time however I have brought a floppy drive...

 

[spirit]

man still can't make heads or tails of this

for someone who lives in england your english is bad :\

ps you can make bootable cd-roms anyway.. ??

general

 

[bledd]

please tell us what you were trying to do!

 

[quadboi]

Erm, I wanted to update my bios without having a floppy drive..

E.g. Using a Cd....


Maybe "fooling" the pc as its a floppy.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

ps you can make bootable cd-roms anyway.

Sure you can. How did you install an operating system n the computer you're using? You booted a CD. I know that Nero can burn MS-DOS boot disks that work just like the bootable floppies made with the Windows format tool.

I don't know if I would try to hack something together for updating the BIOS though. If it went wrong you'd be out a motherboard or you'd be waiting for months for the manufacturer to send you a new BIOS chip from Singapore.

 

[quadboi]

Thanks for that


I have a floppy drive now though .....