Help please, what do your guys mean bootable CD?

[Anonymous]

After I damaged four CD-Rs in order to make a \"bootable\" w2k, sp2 CD finaly I make it with a CD-RW disk. But now I have a question. To my understanding when we say bootable cd we mean we can use it just like a bootable floppy disk with which we can boot into an operation system and go from there. At least for win98 bootable CD you are asked you want to boot with cd-rom support or without cd-rom support and then you entered DOS mode. From there you can do whatever you want like format the disk or repartition the disk. But with the method described in the web the CD I got can only allow me to install win2k. If I don\'t want to install it, it will restart the computer. So I wonder whether when your guys say bootable CD you only mean a bootable installation CD. Thank you very much for your time and help.

[Josetann]

Yes, it\'s just a bootable install cd.  But, you are also able to start the recovery console from the win2k cd, where you can do diagnostics on your win2k installation (very useful, since you can\'t use a dos-based floppy if your partition is ntfs).

[Anonymous]

Yep bootable INSTALL cd
there is a way to make a bootable and runable CD for BeOS.
without even having a harddrive in your system you can run the whole OS from the CD, there is also a bootable runable QNX floppy that will run the whole OS from a floppy.

[Anonymous]

Howdy,

I am having terrible problems making the Win2K boot CD.  I have slipstreamed SP2 OK.  I am running cdrwin 3.8b, printed the instructions, followed them to the letter.  After burning the CD, when I try to boot  I get an error message that says can\'t find NTLDR please insert another disk.  Could you guys give me any pointers?  After 10 coasters I am almost ready to give up.

Thanks

[Josetann]

Please use a CDRW disk, that way \"coasters\" are reusable.  Second, some people say that copying the NTLDR file to the root of the CD drive helps.

There\'s a lot of other things that could cause problems.  Generic quality media for example.  Maybe your burner needs a firmware upgrade, etc.  But generally I\'d double-check the instructions again (don\'t forget the sector 4, instead of 1), try a different brand of CDRW disk, and copy the NTLDR file to the root of the cd.  If that fails, bug a friend who owes you a favor to make one for you (then just make copies of that CD whenever you need).