cant load dos

ok i have a program that i want to install on a fresh hard drive . .i do have the first boot device set to cd rom when i restart it says cant load dos press any key to retry.how could i get this cd to boot ???????/

 

any experts on this would be nice???????

 

how do i do this ddp please expain .also this is acopied cd

 

i tried it on my compaq running xp.it does have 3.5 floppy. i just tried it on this pc to see if it would boot. i want to try to boot this cd on a BLANK hard drive in another pc but it gives me same thing,cannot load dos.do i need boot disk

 

its a copied bootable cd

 

yes it has booted of a regular boughten cd. but it wont boot from a copy made with nero express and chooseing boootable

 

i did try it on 2 pcs and it gives same message. any ideas

 

Sometimes, just copying a disk that is bootable will not always work. As in this case. Unless the boot sector (boot files) were copied correctly by Nero, you may have to make the disk bootable by scratch.

To do that in Nero, you will need a DOS boot image. And a great resource for that is here:

http://bootdisk.com/

However, I have always used the Windows ME boot image to create DOS bootable CDs found here, as well as a quick guide to set up Nero for creating it.

http://www.thetechguide.com/howto/winmebootcd.html

Follow the guide on that site, and after setting it up with the image, simply copy all the files you need to burn to that disk in the compilation. Now, of course you are going to get a Windows ME boot menu....just don't select to install Windows ME. (you can actually edit the file used to create that menu to remove that selection)

 

ok i tried making a me bootable disk its 1.40mb and my disk is a 1.44 and is says its to large for disk . any ideas ????/ it says get larger disks????? could i try one on that bootdisk site which one ??????????

 

please help and remember these are file folder on the copied cd. its not cd to cd

 

Try this.

It contains three boot files (if your boot drive is C). This will boot your computer and allow you access to the drive.

http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Scroll down to where it says "XP Quick Boot Diskette" and click on the files link.

If not, you can pay $4.00 U.S. and get his whole collection of bootable files.

 

WHAT I NEED IS ONE THAT will make an image that nero can copy while i copy the files 2 cd so it will boot

 

Send me the software ya want bootable via email and I will make it bootable. Pm if ya want