[Herefordshire] Laptop Q

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Noel,

Noel McG. wrote:
> 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.

Booting from a CD is function of the BIOS and not related to any 
operating systems installed.  Older computers (I would guess pre-1997) 
would not be able to boot from CD, it's quite to see if it can though. 
Just go into the BIOS and find the menu that allows you to select the 
boot devices order and see if CD-ROM can be selected.

 From my own perspective (regarding floppy drives), I've had a laptop 
for a year without one and have only had 1 instance were I have needed 
it, however, that could have been overcome if I had a USB memory key.

Thanks
Mark


Cheers
Mark

>  
>  
> 
> 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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