You can also make a boot disk in Windows 95 or Windows 98 by formatting a new disk and checking the box for Copy system files before you format. This will not copy all the files that are on the startup disk, but it will have enough on it to start your computer in MS-DOS mode if that is all you wish to do. This is not an option in Windows Me. This is document afwm in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on I don't know if Windows 95 even supports booting from USB, let alone installing from it.
Was USB even supported in Windows 95? And that would be the earliest support for USB, I'd think. Yes, the later 0SR 2. I actually did get a CD to boot using a floppy emulation and a windows 95 floppy boot disk. The problem I had was while it booted as an A drive, I couldn't access the Windows 95 install files I had placed on the CD because floppy's don't don't support directories. Whatever you boot from needs to load CD-ROM drivers if you intend on actually running something from it.
What do you mean floppies don't support directories? They'd be relatively useless if they didn't. Yes, it was late when I wrote that. BAT files, for example. If you use any "devicehigh" or "loadhigh" LH statements in your config. Having them on the floppy disk ensures you can boot-up the computer with access to upper and extended memory even if the hard drive has been damaged. In the Windows Explorer , you can highlight them and drag them onto the A:drive icon do NOT depress the Shift key while doing so, or you'll erase them from your hard drive!
You can, of course, use one of the many other methods that may be more familiar to you. Almost everything you need to do with your computer can be done in many different ways! You guessed it! They are:. These files see the examples below! BAT and. SYS and not something like '. You can read this page for help in doing that: Viewing File Extensions. If you've never used it before, you should set aside some time to learn about its features soon. Unlike the old one that came with previous versions of MS-DOS, this one can open multiple files and has a split-screen option!
It's probably best if you copy those lines exactly as they are into your own. SYS and. BAT batch files. SYS or. SYS file and place a copy of it onto your new boot disk. I consider all the files on my boot disks to be useful. So, what do I do if there's another must have utility I just got and the Boot Disk is already full? A good PC Tech will probably carry around a bunch of disks full of programs to cover many different situations!
BAT on your floppy disk along with the driver necessary to use your CD-ROM drive, then you should also test your boot disk to make sure you can actually access a CD after booting with the floppy. Remember, once your hard drive fails to boot, it's too late! You can also use a floppy with data in it. However, you should make sure that the data written in the floppy disk is not required by you anymore, as it will get overwritten by the Windows 95 boot-up information.
The bootable disk is now ready to be used. To test the disk, you will have to turn off your computer and turn it back on once again. When the computer restarts, change the boot sequence, by selecting floppy disk as first boot device, rather than using your hard disk drive.
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