[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]

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).