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how to make a network boot disk

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by ppoll

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My hardrive crashed. I'd like to backup my files on it, before I send it in for repair. It won't boot to windows, so my only option is to boot with a floppy disk to dos. How do I make a Dos boot disk that can connect to the network?

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by estebandelatorre

Boot into DOS, make a subdir and copy there all nic's monolithic drivers.
Form there you have to load first a .sys file into your config.sys (the boot disk) in order to load the driver.
Once the driver is loaded you have to load the shell's drivers nic card. Usually these files are .exe files.
Depending on the type of network you have (windows (lan manager), domain, netware,etc, is the set of drivers that you nned to install.
Under a typical driver structure, you will find \dos \windows\ winnt\ \xp directories, you should take the drivers from the dos subdir.

Mail me the driver name and I could help you more..

by shmaltz

Here is one that worked for me.
Power Quest has a program that is called Drive Image Pro 4.0. It includes a wizard to create Network boot disks for any NIC.
You can download the program for a free 30 day trial and only use this part of the program.

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