Once you burn the disk, if you open it in Explorer you should see two files on the CD - BOOT.CAT and BOOT.BIN (turn "Hide System Files" off if necessary). This is why you need the floppy disk, because ...

Hey, I need a boot CD b/c the laptop I have only has a cdrom. I have a non-bootable Win2K cd, with bootdisk images (4 of them). I've tried to make a CD that is bootable, and has all 4 disks of data on ...

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store ...

Sometimes you may run into a situation where your system fails to respond correctly. Under such circumstances, you may find booting into another OS as your best option. Sometimes, troubleshooting PC ...