Making win2k boot CD

Cabaal

Right
I have a Win2kPro CD but it won't boot from the CD when I want to install from it. (yes BIOS is enabled :-)

Anyway, in order to boot the CD, I have make 4 boot floppys from the the Win2KPro CD. I've tried to create a boot disk using Nero, but can't figure out how I can make it bootable.

Anyone have any ideas?

hussey

is this a backup of the original CD?
if so you would need need to create an image of the CD then burn, as if your using nero and you just drag all files+folders in the box the bootable part wouldn't be copied

Cabaal

Its a drag and drop job, not a proper CD image

no other way to make it bootable?

hussey

well a drag and drop job will miss out(not even see) the boot section.
Clone CD will sort ya out

Cabaal

yeah I know, but unfortunatly the orignal CD is dead as a door nail so can't clone it

if I had it, it would have been one of the first things I wou;ld have tried

Kai

Suppose you could download a bootable cdrom image from
http://www.bootdisk.com/
and write it to a cd and then add the win 2k files to the cd after that. that would give you a cd that boots to DOS and you can run setup.exe from the i386 folder to sstart the installation.

Or the way i do it is use a win98 boot disk and then run the setup.exe from the disk.

bricks

Follow the instructions on this site.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#w2k

Renton

Originally posted by Frugu
that would give you a cd that boots to DOS and you can run setup.exe from the i386 folder to sstart the installation.

run winnt.exe from the i386 folder

renton