house of payne Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 All, When trying to create a bootable CD from a 3.5 floppy I'm receiving the following error: - An error was encountered creating the boot image from drive A: The floppy could not be read. Please make sure a bootable floppy is in the drive. I tested the drive and outside of the Roxio Easy CD Creater 5application, I can read/write to the media. Also, the boot floppy works fine on another machine. I'm not sure how to resolve this issue. Is there a setting that I'm missing? Is this feature buggy? Any assistance would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 All, When trying to create a bootable CD from a 3.5 floppy I'm receiving the following error: - An error was encountered creating the boot image from drive A: The floppy could not be read. Please make sure a bootable floppy is in the drive. I tested the drive and outside of the Roxio Easy CD Creater 5application, I can read/write to the media. Also, the boot floppy works fine on another machine. I'm not sure how to resolve this issue. Is there a setting that I'm missing? Is this feature buggy? Any assistance would be much appreciated. Take a look at the diskette using Windows Explorer. There should be a couple files like IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS on the diskette. Both need to have the "hidden" attribute set for ECDC 5 to make a bootable CD from it. If you right-click on those files, and select Properties, you should get a dialogue box where you can set that attribute. Give that a shot and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Out of curiosity, what is it you are trying to make bootable? The reason for asking is that there are better ways to make bootable OS CDs (for 2K and XP) which also let you slipstream the service packs in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted July 10, 2007 Report Share Posted July 10, 2007 Out of curiosity, what is it you are trying to make bootable? The reason for asking is that there are better ways to make bootable OS CDs (for 2K and XP) which also let you slipstream the service packs in I'm presuming he's going for a DOS bootable CD, for which ECDC 5 requires a bootable diskette for the boot image. Of course, FreeDOS has an ISO image from which to make a bootable disk, and it supports FAT32 as well. (www.freedos.org) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Actually - I prefer using Autostreamer myself - that makes a nice bootable Windows CD and even slipstreams service packs in before making the iso. After that, you just use ECD to burn the thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_deweywright Posted July 11, 2007 Report Share Posted July 11, 2007 Actually - I prefer using Autostreamer myself - that makes a nice bootable Windows CD and even slipstreams service packs in before making the iso. After that, you just use ECD to burn the thing But, if you want to boot DOS and run utilities (such as a Take Two restore), rather than install Windows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbrewst Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Actually - I prefer using Autostreamer myself - that makes a nice bootable Windows CD and even slipstreams service packs in before making the iso. After that, you just use ECD to burn the thing I like using nlite but to each his own .I've got an XP disc that now has XP,SP2 plus a few other fixes included (one of which is WMP10).Works well to not have to download some of these updates again after an install. Sorry to Hijack..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 No hijack there - we have given the OP (and anyone else reading) a few hints, tips and pointers to making boot discs for just about every contingency Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendon Posted July 13, 2007 Report Share Posted July 13, 2007 No hijack there - we have given the OP (and anyone else reading) a few hints, tips and pointers to making boot discs for just about every contingency . . . but have we fixed his problem?? Remember, the program wouldn't read his boot floppy in A: drive when he was making a bootable CD? Brendon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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