[Herefordshire] Laptop Q

[Noel McG.]

If you have an operasting system installed you should be able to boot or whatever from a CD.

However if you have a clean formatted HD with no OS I would suspect not, as one of the things on a boot up floppy is the driver for the CD drive without which it will not work.

Noel.



If a PC has a CD ( / DVD) drive and the BIOS supports booting from it (which I assume they all do now) 

Then if I have a CD which has had suitable files and utilities burnt onto it 
(e.g. for DOS:  Io.sys  Command.com  Msdos.sys  and then  fdisk.exe  format.com  etc. etc.)

Would I have any problems booting with this CD and doing with it the things I would have done with a bootable floppy (assuming that the CD had the relevant files on it's little boot like a floppy area, or that the relevant files could be accessed elsewhere on the CD, or a hard drive?

Please excuse my ignorance and thanks in anticipation

Edward FW 


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