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January 5, 2005 at 05:58 PM
mrafrohead

Dos Boot Disk Creation – Need help plz

by mrafrohead . Updated 18 years, 5 months ago

I am making a bootable thumbdrive.

I have the drive working properly if I take a dos boot disk and copy the whole thing to the root of the thumbdrive.

When I boot with it, it treats the thumbdrive as a C:\ drive.

Therefore will everything in the root, I just needed to alter the autoexec.bat and config.sys and setramd.bat to route through to the C:\ instead of A:\.

Wellllll….

I decided to change things a little bit. So i took all of the files, EXCEPT the three main dos files, command.com/io.sys/msdos.sys, and put them into a directory called “DOS”.

So now I have taken all of the config files I listed above and have them pointed to c:\dos but now it’s not working right.

I added a autoexec.bat file to the root and had it point to the autoexec.bat file in the DOS folder.

None of my virtual drives are showing up now. I’m not given a choice to boot from CD. My ramdrive won’t work.

Neone have any ideas what I’m doing wrong. I’ve spent all day on this and had it figured out, but now since my little “change”, I am completely stuck…

Any help would be appreciated. If you need more info, just lemme know and I’ll post it… 🙂

Thanks,

Mrafrohead

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