creating boot disk to DOS

If you have access to a Win95/98 Machine you can make one there. Just go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, There should be a tab that Says Startup Disk.

Alternatively, if you have a Win98 CD (Which is also Bootable). Boot from that, go to the DOS prompt and type in "format b:/s" that will the Stiffy disk that you put in the floppy drive. Note I said b: because a: is already taken when you boot off a CD.

Otherwise go to a site like DELL, and download ANY disk for flash upgrades, and then edit the Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files that are created after running the downloaded file.

Cheers ....

From a good Win9x machine, open a DOS window, insert a diskette into A-Drive (one that can be totally erased or a new one), and at the command prompt type

format a:/s

That will create a newly formatted boot disk with the command.com file copied onto the diskette. Before you can boot up a computer from that diskette, however, you have to make sure that the BIOS settings are defined to instruct the computer to seek A-Drive as its 1st boot device. There will be some sort of Boot Sequence selection in the BIOS that you'll have to set. It may already be set that way, as most computers default to that setting. Good luck.

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thank you guys, I got it