Floppy boot disk with DVD drivers

Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
drive.

<dthomas1@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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>
> Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
> wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
> drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
> drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
> floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
> drive.



yes..
You can get IDE/SCSI DVD/CD drivers.. I think that the win98 system files
and above would actually load a IDE Dvd/Cd drive without much trouble.
You can also get similar dos versions that allow networking support, so
you could install off of a share or even the internet (some *nix allow
install over the net)

In article <t33r54pkjnuo4f5sdjtg5ol318h02ehma4@4ax.com>, dthomas1
@san.rr.com says...
>
>
> Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
> wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
> drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
> drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
> floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
> drive.
>

Perhaps something from here:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

may help you.

First hit from googling on "windows me boot floppy"

http://www.google.com/search?
hl=en&q=windows+me+boot+floppy&btnG=Google+Search

Bill

dthomas1@san.rr.com writes:

> Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
> wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
> drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
> drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
> floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
> drive.

I don't think there's a difference between CD and DVD, these days they
are simply ATAPI or SATA devices. I recently used a FreeDOS boot
floppy image to upgrade BIOS on my HTPC. It accessed the DVD contents
fine. The boot disk was actually an image included on the "Ultimate
BootCD" available from http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. You can boot
various floppy images and such from the CD's boot menu.

In article <t33r54pkjnuo4f5sdjtg5ol318h02ehma4@4ax.com>, dthomas1@san.rr.com wrote:
>
>
>Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
>wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
>drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
>drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
>floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
>drive.


http://www.bootdisk.com/



Download this and have afloppy ready in the drive, this will create a Windows
ME boot disk
http://vcic.com/vault/bootme.exe

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:14:04 GMT, glenzabr@xmission.com (GMAN) wrote:

>In article <t33r54pkjnuo4f5sdjtg5ol318h02ehma4@4ax.com>, dthomas1@san.rr.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
>>wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
>>drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
>>drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
>>floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
>>drive.
>
>
>http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
>
>
>Download this and have afloppy ready in the drive, this will create a Windows
>ME boot disk
>http://vcic.com/vault/bootme.exe

I don't need a bootdisk for ME, I need a boot disk with DVD drivers so
once booted I can access the DVD drive. I have a boatload of bootdisk
that will provide drivers for CD drives, but the problem I was
refering to was how to load ME on a blank HD, with a only a DVD drive,
no CD drive.The installation ME disk is not bootable. We could not
come up with a bootdisk to load drivers for the DVD drive. Finally
installed a CD drive and loaded ME, then removed the CD drive. Thanks
for the offer though,appreciate it.

Dewayne

<dthomas1@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:14:04 GMT, glenzabr@xmission.com (GMAN) wrote:
>
>>In article <t33r54pkjnuo4f5sdjtg5ol318h02ehma4@4ax.com>,
>>dthomas1@san.rr.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>Does a floppy boot disk with DVD drivers exist? I have a friend who
>>>wanted to install Win ME on a blank HD with a DVD drive,(no CD
>>>drive),all he had was a boot floppy with CD drivers. I loaned him a CD
>>>drive to make the install, but got to wondering if a there was a
>>>floppy boot disk with a program for booting with drivers for a DVD
>>>drive.
>>
>>
>>http://www.bootdisk.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>Download this and have afloppy ready in the drive, this will create a
>>Windows
>>ME boot disk
>>http://vcic.com/vault/bootme.exe
>
> I don't need a bootdisk for ME, I need a boot disk with DVD drivers so
> once booted I can access the DVD drive. I have a boatload of bootdisk
> that will provide drivers for CD drives, but the problem I was
> refering to was how to load ME on a blank HD, with a only a DVD drive,
> no CD drive.The installation ME disk is not bootable. We could not
> come up with a bootdisk to load drivers for the DVD drive. Finally
> installed a CD drive and loaded ME, then removed the CD drive. Thanks
> for the offer though,appreciate it.
>
> Dewayne

Unless I'm missing something, why not load the ME CD in the DVD drive, copy
the ME CD to an image file with, for example, NERO and then write the CD
image to a blank DVD?

HTH,
john