HELP--How to make a boot disk for Windows 2000 Professional?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciated. Will the img files have to be in order when burned?

As for the readme, this is it in its entirety:

 
                               WINIMAGE 6.10
                      Copyright 1993-2002 Gilles Vollant

For Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 3.1 with Win32s




PURPOSE
~~~~~~~
This Zipfile contains WinImage 6.10, standard and professional
version, and the self extractor.

This is the English version of WinImage 6.10. For other languages,
you need to download the translation Zipfile on the WinImage Internet
Web site http://www.winimage.com/download.htm .


STEP ONE
~~~~~~~~
You need to extract winima61.zip in a new directory (for example,
c:\winimage). You can use WinZip (http://www.winzip.com) for this
task.

You can also start the install file winima61.exe.


STEP TWO
~~~~~~~~
If you are running MSDOS + Windows 3.1x, you need to install Win32s 1.30.
There is a link to download Win32s at http://www.winimage.com/othertl.htm
You can also add FDREAD.EXE to your AUTOEXEC.BAT to read 1.68/DMF floppies.

(Note : FDREAD is only for MSDOS 5.x/6.x, NOT for Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP)


STEP THREE
~~~~~~~~~~
If you want to run WinImage, just run WinImage.exe.

The full documentation is in the WinImaUS.HLP help file. The additional
features of WinImage 6.10 are in the "Evolution of WinImage topic".

Don't hesitate check the web site for up-to-date info.


Gilles Vollant
mailto:info@winimage.com
http://www.winimage.com
http://www.winimage.com/order.htm (for ordering a license)

The help section has a lot more, but it isn't that helpful for the specific thing.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Going through a lot of CDs, and it doesn’t make sense that the img files, if directly burned without being ‘configured’ into a boot disk will work, but will give it a try....

[newgeezer]

Will the img files have to be in order when burned?

As I said, I'd use Winimage to extract all the files from the four IMG files into a folder (e.g. "win2kboot"). Then, I'd burn all those files (not the folder, just its files) onto a CD. So, you wouldn't be burning the IMG files. The order of the files shouldn't matter.

Burning the floppy IMG files onto CDs will do nothing for you.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Yet MORE links to supposed boot disks which either don't work or aren't easily burned onto CD:

• http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm.
• http://www.answersthatwork.com/Downright_pages/Boot_Disks_and_Boot_CDs.htm. Both were tried and didn't work--less than 200kb seems very tiny.
• http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml.

  Bunch of dead ends. If only computers were free.....

[newgeezer]

148 Kb is fine for what it says it does.

Once you boot your PC with a Windows 2000 Professional boot CD, what are you hoping to do next? Is it something you cannot do with the Ultimate Boot CD?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Intend to run CHKDSK and remove the things which could have caused the blue screen so that the computer, and its files, programs, hard drive, and access to the internet can be used.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

All these boot CDs, and the symptoms are still the same: on the colorful Windows start up screen (or its equivalent in Repair or debug mode) the status/progress bar stops halfway, or a little over halfway, to be followed by the blue screen. There isn't even confirmation that the boot disk works--for Puppy Linux and the 'universal' (which ironically doesn't include Windows) boot disk at least show lines of type to show something new is on the computer. So is it just that the boot disks haven't actually been made, or is it just that issue doesn't involve booting up? Although it does have INACESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE..... (in the stop screen).

[newgeezer]

Are you sure it’s booting from the CD? If not, enter Setup (as it’s first starting to boot) to configure the boot devices so that it will boot from the CD-ROM drive before the hard drive(s).

Many PCs, even when they detect a bootable CD, will tell you to press any key to boot from the CD. Then, if you don’t press a key within n seconds, it will skip the CD and go to the next device on the list (usually the hard drive).

At any rate, if it’s doing the same thing it did when booting from the HD, it’s probably still booting from the HD.

[ChadGore]

Go Here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Get the Iso

Burn to CD, DVD or Bluy Ray

Enjoy!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Haven't changed the setup to put CD booting before hard drive, but have pressed F12 when appropriate to boot from CD/DVD. It just goes to a black screen with a small, white line in the upper left, and then to another black screen with a white progress bar (which it normally did), and then (if F8 isn't pressed to select: safe mode; device repair mode; debug mode; last good configuration) to the screen with a picture and a progress bar at the bottom. The blue progress bar goes about halfway and then stops.

So, as for your question, definitely trying to boot from CD, and that is definitely being selected, but it's more a question of whether the stuff on the CDs are bootable. The one in your link seems to be (it is running a memory diagnostic currently--there are so many options and unfamiliar with computers, so since it had 'Windows' and 'memory' (which seems as though it is a big thing which could cause a blue screen) the Windows memory diagnostic was selected).

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Have already tried Puppy Linux. Suspect that ubuntu will have many of the same issues as with that fiasco.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciated anyway, though. Sorry if the earlier post seemed a bit rude. Just personally don’t expect ubuntu to be that helpful given personal low technology skills and prior experience with Linux.