Re: Useful Utility

[Michael Norman michael.norman@xxxxxxxx]

At 10:27 PM 4/11/2007, you wrote:
> E.g., can you burn a CD from which a computer that can't boot up
> into Windows XP (not even in Safe Mode) can at least boot to DOS?
Yes, Harry. You create the boot CD from an ISO you download in .zip
format. Then, making sure your BIOS is set to boot from your first
primary CD-ROM drive, you power up, load the CD and it boots up in
DOS. The A:\ volume -- and here the cognoscenti can weigh in, please
-- is, commonly, I think, the boot sector on all such boot CD's. This
is where the utility files are (there are other basic DOS utilities
in the ISO and you can add still more, a common feature of boot CD's
like Bart's or The Ultimate Boot CD and others). C:\ will be your
first USB storage device -- and external HD -- if you have one. And
D:\ will be your hard drive.

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Michael Norman