Noobie help required creating Boot CD

MrJubbly

MrJubbly

MrJubbly

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Hi,

Please be gentle with me here. Basically I have built my first system and it appears that one of the HDD's is probably duff. Before going through the RMA proces I have been asked to run some diagnostics on the HDD (a Samsung spinpoint 250) to confirm it is faulty. The utilility software can be found at:

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/hutil.htm

The instructions tell me that I will need to create a boot CD or Floppy to carry out the diagnostics. Presently the floppy I do have installed on my new machine is not working for some reason, so I am left with no choice but to create a boot CD. The problem is I haven't got a clue on how to do this, despite several trips round google and trying different things.

I haven't got much to work with either. The only machine I have at home is an aging Gateway PC running windows 98. It has a Plextor CD RW and I have WinOnCD ver 3.7 for burning CD's.

Could some one out there give me an idots step by step guid on what I need to do to create Boot CD that can run the uitlities detailed above? Is the PC I'm using up to the job?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jubbly
 
Well imgburn worked like a treat and I booted my old Gateway PC off the newly created disk with no problem, and the utility was launched.

Placed the disk in my new machine and booted okay of it but the uitlity failed to start. Traced through the command sequence and noticed the following after the command DEVICEHIGH = QCDROM.SYS /D:CD001 is executed:

UMB's unavailable!

QCDROM V1.2, 3-16-2006.
Driver name is "CD001"
No CD/DVD drive to use;QCDROM not loaded.

Following from this other commands fail.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Jubbly
 
MarcLister said:
Am I right in saying you made a boot disc for your Gateway PC and then tried to you the same boot disc on another PC? If that is right, the boot disc is made for the original PC. You'd have to make another boot disc for another PC.

If I've got it all wrong just ignore me. :)
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No the boot disc was created by copying the .ISO file from Samsungs website. I burned the disk on my old PC nd just tested on it first to make sure it would work - and it did.
 
M0t0r0la said:
Your boot-cd is lame and doesn't contain the required generic driver to get practically all ROM's working in DOS.

Download my B00tCD and simply extract and burn included .ISO to get a bootcd that will give you ROM access in DOS. Will work on either CD+/-R or DVD-/+R.

D0S_B00t-CD/DVD with ROM access

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Would this allow me to boot, and then free up the DVD drive to load the utility software?

I'm thinking now that the reason for the problem I'm seeing may be down to the fact the my DVD rw on my new mchine is SATA attached. Does this sound feasible?
 
M0t0r0la said:
Your boot-cd is lame and doesn't contain the required generic driver to get practically all ROM's working in DOS.

Download my B00tCD and simply extract and burn included .ISO to get a bootcd that will give you ROM access in DOS. Will work on either CD+/-R or DVD-/+R.

D0S_B00t-CD/DVD with ROM access

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Tried this, this evening. Once again booted okay, but the same sort of problem was encountered in that it was unable to find a CD ROM drive. It must be because its a SATA Drive, don't you think?

Jubbly
 
eXor said:
DOS can't "see" SATA drives. Try this --> http://marktsai0316.googlepages.com/gcdromfordos
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This is what I was beginning to think might be the case. Thanks for putting me right on that.

I'm too much of a noob to be putting together my on boot disk using the above, but I've been looking around and it looks like there are some freeware boot disk out there that allow booting from SATA drives. I'm not going to be able to tinker with my PC for the next few days, so i'll have to wait to try these out. I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks again,

Jubbly
 
Well I've had a good go at this and I'm getting nowhere.

Has anybody out there got a Boot CD that gives access to a SATA CD/DVD ROM drive. I've hunted high and low now and have gotten nowhere. There is a driver (there may well be others) but the trouble is I haven'y got a clue how to create a boot CD from scratch that would include it. And if I could do that then I would proabably just include the utility software in any case.

Can anybody help me?

Cheers,

Jubbly
 
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