Problem with boot CD's

[Dave_W]

Just found ImgBurn. Great software... many thanks to the author for making this freeware! Nero Express, which came with my computer, is a nice program but ImgBurn gives me more options.

 

I'm having a problem with boot CD's. This isn't limited to ImgBurn, but I just discovered it while trying out ImgBurn last night and you guys seem really knowledgable so I'm hoping you might help. When I burn a boot CD (using a basic MS-DOS boot diskette image), the resulting CD boots up my system fine but additional files I place on the CD aren't accessable. However, the whole CD is perfectly readable and the additional files do show up normally when I open the disk from within Windows.

 

I thought it was an ImgBurn problem, but I discovered the same thing happens using Nero Express. The weird thing is... I used this exact same copy of Nero 6 to burn boot CD's on my old computer, and the additional files on those disks do show up in DOS when I boot this system using them.

 

Does anybody knwo what might be causing this? Thanks in advance.

[mmalves]

Your diskette image lacks a device driver and MSCDEX, both of which are required by DOS in order to be able to read CDs/DVDs.

Have a look at Bootdisk.com for bootable diskette images with support for reading CDs/DVDs (I prefer the ones under Non-Windows Based Image Files W/ImageApp since you can easily extract the diskette image from them )

[Dave_W]

Thanks! I couldn't figure out what was wrong. My old system had a floppy drive so I was able to use a bootable floppy with Nero to make bootable CD's. But the system I have now (a laptop) doesn't have a floppy drive so I've been trying to use a floppy image file but I guess it doesn't have the needed drivers. And I appreciate your tip on where to look on Bootdisk.com for boot images that can be used without having a floppy drive... I've been trying to figure that out too