How to enable the OS on a virtual floppy disk

How to create a universal dos boot disk! (Floppy disk + CD + U disk + hard disk + NTFS + ......)

Hu e Dao published on 15:34:08 Preface: DOS-old man fuyun, aiming at a thousand miles. DOS is a bit obscure, mysterious, and distant for people who come into contact with computers in the Windows age, but it cannot be a stumbling block for us to master dos. Learning some dos knowledge will make you have a better time in the computer world and be able to cope with tough problems. DOS is not omnipotent, but it is absolutely impossible without dos. DOS is very old, but it has not reached the retirement age, Windows has not yet developed to be completely out of the DOS stage, many Windows cannot solve the problem, we still need to go back to the DOS solution. We have windows, but we still need dos ...... The dos boot disk is currently the most commonly used dos tool. Some External commands and tools attached to it will help you solve many problems. In this article, we will describe how to create and use the DOS boot disk in detail, the DOS version is the dos7.1 that comes with win98se. First, describe how the various operating systems start to DoS: Win9x system: Press F8 after the system is started, and press enter for the first item to enter the basic dos7.x environment that comes with the system. 2 k/XP/2003: the system does not have a built-in dos, And the DOS environment needs to be obtained through the DOS boot disk or virtual soft drive. This article describes how to create four dos boot disks. The basic program files that exist in the four boot disks are described as follows: Attrib. EXE file attribute modification tool. Autoexec. Bat automatically executes batch processing when it is started. Config. sys system configuration file. Deltree. EXE deletes directories and embedded files. Di1000dd. sys USB device driver. Doskey. com doskey is a convenient command line tool. Edit. com text editing tool. Emm386.exe memory driver. Fdisk. EXE 98SE built-in partition tool. FDISK-ME.exe winme built-in partition tool, support 60 GB or above hard disk. Format. com formatting tool. Himem. sys memory driver. Jmhdfix. EXE Jiangmin hard drive repair Wang, Hard Drive repair good stuff, new users use with caution. The tool used to access and exit the directory by using the following command. Mouse driver for mouse. com PS/2 and serial interface. Mscdex. EXE optical drive management program. The general drive of the oakcdrom. sys Optical Drive. PC. EXE pctools. R.com restart tool. Scandisk. EXE disk scan tool, used to fix some disk problems. Smartdrv. EXE disk high-speed buffer. SYS. com transmission system. Usb api. sys USB driver. Xcopy. EXE xcopy file directory copy tool. I. Dos boot disk for a floppy disk Target Audience: Friends with 1.44 MB 3.5in soft drive A. Supports memory management of himem and emm386, which can break the limit of KB of common DoS Memory. B, can drive a variety of common types of optical drive (CDROM, DVD-ROM ). C. Support for smartdrv disk buffer acceleration, which greatly speeds up disk read/write in DOS, especially when installing the system in DOS or using a ghost image file, which saves you a lot of time. D. Recognize the USB flash drive and automatically assign a drive letter to it. E. automatically load the mouse driver. : Http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/dosbootV1104.exe Procedure: 1. After the download, insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk and run the program. It automatically creates a DOS boot disk with the above functions. 2. Insert the floppy disk into the soft drive, restart the computer, and press the Del key on the system self-check interface to enter the BIOS settings (if it is a special bios, please refer to the motherboard manual to determine which key to press to enter BIOS), enter BIOS features setup, set boot sequence (boot sequence) to disk a first, the setting method is to press the Pageup or Pagedown key on the item to convert the options. After setting, click esc, return to the main BIOS interface, and select Save and exit (save and exit the BIOS settings. Press F10 directly, but not all BIOS support) press enter to exit the BIOS settings. 3. After the system is restarted, the DOS system is automatically guided from the soft drive. The Boot menu has three options, Boot dos with CDROM is a drive, Boot dos with CDROM + USB drive and USB drive, Boot dos only starts dos and loads memory management and smartdrv cache. Use the restart key to select the desired start mode. Press enter to confirm. Note that if you select the boot dos with CDROM + USB option, it will take a long time (1-2 minutes) to scan the USB device during startup ), please wait. 4. After the startup is successful, the DOS loading successful is displayed at the: prompt. Now, after the DOS system is started, you can do what you should do now. Note: Use a good-quality floppy disk as the boot disk to keep the disk running normally. Ii. Dos boot disk for Optical Disk Target Audience: friends who do not have a software drive but have an optical drive (recorder) (friends who do not like it) A. Supports memory management of himem and emm386, which can break the limit of KB of common DoS Memory. B, can drive a variety of common types of optical drive (CDROM, DVD-ROM ). C. Support for smartdrv disk buffer acceleration, which greatly speeds up disk read/write in DOS, especially when installing the system in DOS or using a ghost image file, which saves you a lot of time. D. Recognize the USB flash drive and automatically assign a drive letter to it. E. You can select whether NTFS partitions are supported. F. automatically load the mouse driver. : Http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/dos-cdromboot-v1104.ima Procedure: 1. Enable the recording software Nero, select "CDROM-Boot" from the select disc type, and select "Image File" from "start". in browse, select the downloaded IMA file and click New To Go To The Nero interface. 2. If you only want to have basic dos functions and do not need to perform operations on NTFS partitions, skip this section and check 3rd. If you want to have more powerful dos functions, please download the following compressed package: http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/dosappV1104.rar The package contains the following content: Dm955 DM universal edition 9.55, commonly used tool for partitioning and hard disk repair, the execution file: dm.com. DOS is the most commonly used dos External commands and some dos tools to maximize your dos functions. Hdfix Jiang Min's hard disk repair king, a powerful tool for hard disk repair, used with caution by cainiao, the execution file: jmhdfix.exe. Select the ghost for each DOS version of ghost. Ndd2004 Norton disk doctor 2004 dos + win 2-in-1 version, used to fix hard disk problems, DOS execution file: ndd.exe, Windows execution file: ndd32.exe. NTFS can read and write NTFS partitions under DOS. It is applicable to anti-virus software running dos and data backed up by NTFS partitions. the executable file is ntfspro.exe. Pq805 version 8.05 of the latest pqmagic, a powerful tool for partitioning under DOS, supports a large hard drive of more than GB, the executable file: pqmagic.exe. UCDOS ucdos98 pocket Special Edition, including cced5.18 and wps2.0, comes with Pinyin and five-stroke input methods, ALT + F2 start Pinyin input method, ALT + F5 start five-stroke input method, Right Shift key is the Chinese and English input method switch, start UCDOS: U. bat, start CCed: cced.exe, and start WPS: wps.com. After downloading this package, decompress it to the hard disk, add it to the burned content in Nero, make it into the boot disc, and convert it to the disc drive letter in DOS, enter the corresponding directory and execute the corresponding program. 3. Start to burn the disc. After that, you will have a DOS disc that can start the system. 4. Put the disc into the optical drive, restart the computer, and press the Del key on the system self-check interface to enter BIOS settings (if it is a special bios, please refer to the motherboard manual to determine which key to press to enter BIOS), enter BIOS features setup, set boot sequence (boot sequence) to CDROM first, the setting method is to press the Pageup or Pagedown key on the item to convert the options. After setting, click esc, return to the main BIOS interface, and select Save and exit (save and exit the BIOS settings. Press F10 directly, but not all BIOS support) press enter to exit the BIOS settings. 3. After the system is restarted, the DOS system will be automatically guided from the optical drive. The Boot menu has three options, Boot dos with CDROM is a drive, Boot dos with CDROM + USB drive and USB drive, Boot dos only starts dos and loads memory management and smartdrv cache. Use the restart key to select the desired start mode. Press enter to confirm. Note that if you select the boot dos with CDROM + USB option, it will take a long time (1-2 minutes) to scan the USB device during startup ), please wait. 4. After the startup is successful, the DOS loading successful is displayed at the: prompt. Now, after the DOS system is started, you can do what you should do now. Note: We recommend that you use a cdrw disk to create a boot disk. you can replace it with any version updates in the future. You can also burn some commonly used dos tools to this disc for ease of use. Iii. USB flash drive dos boot disk Intended audience: friends who do not have a USB flash drive or a USB flash drive (friends who are too troubled by the CD) A. Supports memory management of himem and emm386, which can break the limit of KB of common DoS Memory. B, can drive a variety of common types of optical drive (CDROM, DVD-ROM ). C. Support for smartdrv disk buffer acceleration, which greatly speeds up disk read/write in DOS, especially when installing the system in DOS or using a ghost image file, which saves you a lot of time. D. Recognize the USB flash drive and automatically assign a drive letter to it. E. You can select whether NTFS partitions are supported. F. automatically load the mouse driver. 1, download the following boot U disk production tools: http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/usboot.rar After downloading, you can use it to make your USB flash drive into a DOS boot type. When selecting "work mode", you must select HDD mode and follow the prompts of the tool to make it successful. 2. download the following RAR compressed package and release the file to the root directory of the USB flash drive. Note that it is the root directory! If you do not need to support NTFS partitions or other dos tools, skip step 3 and go directly to step 4. : Http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/dos-usboot-v1104.rar 3. download the following compressed packages and release them to the U Disk: http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/dosappV1104.rar The package contains the following content: Dm955 DM universal edition 9.55, commonly used tool for partitioning and hard disk repair, the execution file: dm.com. DOS is the most commonly used dos External commands and some dos tools to maximize your dos functions. Hdfix Jiang Min's hard disk repair king, a powerful tool for hard disk repair, used with caution by cainiao, the execution file: jmhdfix.exe. Select the ghost for each DOS version of ghost. Ndd2004 Norton disk doctor 2004 dos + win 2-in-1 version, used to fix hard disk problems, DOS execution file: ndd.exe, Windows execution file: ndd32.exe. NTFS can read and write NTFS partitions under DOS. It is applicable to anti-virus software running dos and data backed up by NTFS partitions. the executable file is ntfspro.exe. Pq805 version 8.05 of the latest pqmagic, a powerful tool for partitioning under DOS, supports a large hard drive of more than GB, the executable file: pqmagic.exe. UCDOS ucdos98 pocket Special Edition, including cced5.18 and wps2.0, comes with Pinyin and five-stroke input methods, ALT + F2 start Pinyin input method, ALT + F5 start five-stroke input method, Right Shift key is the Chinese and English input method switch, start UCDOS: U. bat, start CCed: cced.exe, and start WPS: wps.com. Go to the corresponding directory and execute the corresponding program. 4. Now, you have a USB flash drive that can start the DOS system. 5. Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port (it is best to temporarily unplug other USB devices), restart the computer, and press the Del key on the system self-check interface to enter the BIOS settings (if it is a special bios, refer to the motherboard manual to determine which key to press to enter BIOS), enter BIOS features setup, set boot sequence (boot sequence) to USB-HDD first, the setting method is to press the Pageup or Pagedown key on the item to convert the options. After setting, click esc, return to the main BIOS interface, and select Save and exit (save and exit the BIOS settings. Press F10 directly, but not all BIOS support) press enter to exit the BIOS settings. 6. After the system is restarted, the system will automatically boot the DOS system from the USB flash drive. The Boot menu has three options: Boot dos with CDROM is a drive, Boot dos with CDROM + USB drive and USB drive, Boot dos only starts dos and loads memory management and smartdrv cache. Use the restart key to select the desired start mode. Press enter to confirm. Note that if you select the boot dos with CDROM + USB option, it will take a long time (1-2 minutes) to scan the USB device during startup ), please wait. 7. After the startup is successful, the DOS loading successful is displayed at the: prompt. Now, after the DOS system is started, you can do what you should do now. Note: Back up the original data on the USB flash disk before making the boot disk. It is best to format the USB flash disk completely. 4. Hard Disk DOS Startup Target Audience: friends who do not have a soft drive, USB flash drive, recorder, or optical drive (friends who like speed) Method 1: If your c disk is in the FAT32 format before the new system is installed (2 k/XP/2003), you can use the DOS boot disk to start the system and run the Sys C: Command, transfer the DOS system file to drive C, and then install 2 k/XP/2003 (note that the partition format of drive C is not changed during installation). After windows is installed, after the instance is restarted, two startup options will appear, asking you to choose whether to start 2 k/XP/2003 or Microsoft Windows (DOS). Press enter to select the ↑ ↓ key and press enter to confirm. Method 2: If you have installed 2 k/XP/2003 or the system disk is in NTFS format, but want to install dos again, you can modify some system files, but it is troublesome. Here we recommend the following simple method: A. Supports memory management of himem and emm386, which can break the limit of KB of common DoS Memory. B, can drive a variety of common types of optical drive (CDROM, DVD-ROM ). C. Support for smartdrv disk buffer acceleration, which greatly speeds up disk read/write in DOS, especially when installing the system in DOS or using a ghost image file, which saves you a lot of time. D. Recognize the USB flash drive and automatically assign a drive letter to it. E. You can select whether NTFS partitions are supported. F. automatically load the mouse driver. 1. Download The vfloopycompressed package of this tool, uncompress it to a hard disk, run vfloopy.exe in it, and select the NTFS file included in the compressed package in the image file column. IMG, other do not need to change, directly click the application button, OK, and then the software will ask you to restart the system. Http://nnmm.arongsoft.com/dos/VFloopy-ntfs-v1104.rar 2. After the system is restarted, before entering 2 k/XP/2003, the boot menu will include "start from virtual boot floppy disk", which is the option to start to dos, select it and press enter to enter the DOS menu. The meaning of the DOS menu is as follows: Boot dos with CDROM Drive Optical Drive Boot dos with CDROM + USB. Drive drive and USB flash drive Boot dos with CDROM + NTFS. Drive drive and NTFS partition supported Boot dos only starts dos and loads memory management and smartdrv cache. Use the restart key to select the desired start mode. Press enter to confirm. Note that if you select the boot dos with CDROM + USB option, it will take a long time (1-2 minutes) to scan the USB device during startup ), please wait. After selecting boot dos with CDROM + NTFS, the NTFS read/write tool will be automatically loaded. In this way, the NTFS partition can be operated under DOS, which makes sense to special users. 3. At this point, the hard disk version of DOS boot has been successfully created. As long as you do not reinstall the system or format the system disk, this DoS boot menu will always exist. Note: Do not use the Sys command to transmit the system to the system disk. This will damage the system boot information.

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Create new pure dos in NTFS partition format

The virtual boot floppy disk is useful for laptop users who have installed Windows 2000/Windows XP (or multiple systems) and do not have a software drive. However, I found that, in the DOS environment, each NTFS partition cannot be directly accessed. After several practical explorations, I tried to integrate the NTFS partition access function in this DOS environment. I will share with you here. The following software is required first (other software can implement the same function ):

Ramdisk ntv1.5 download

Download ntfsdos pro

Download win image 6.1

Vfloppy

Let's go!

　　The first step is to use ramdisknt to create an image file and a virtual floppy drive for the DOS boot disk.

Run ramdisknt and set it as follows:

1. Select 2.88 MB Floppy for disk type;

2. drive letter (drive letter). You can select any drive letter, but do not conflict with an existing drive letter! If your computer does not have a soft drive, set it to a and Check Start driver at boot;

3. Boot Sector settings (Boot Sector settings). Check the DOS Boot Sector;

4. Save image settings (Save image settings). Check Save image on shutdown. You can change the Save filemname, for example, E:/msdos/ramdisknt. IMG;

5. Load image settings (load image settings), check load disk image on startup, and set load filename to the same as save filename. Here it is set to E:/DOS/ramdisknt. IMG;

6. Click Start, save disk image to save the disk image, and save settings, OK to exit. At this time, you will find that "my computer" has an additional drive, that is, virtual soft drive!

In this way, we created an image file for the DOS boot disk and a "soft drive ".

　　Step 2: Use ntfsdos pro to create the ntfsdos boot disk.

1. run the ntfsdos pro boot disk creation wizard and click Next. In the "System File Settings" dialog box, specify the installation directory for Windows NT/2000/XP as prompted. for users of multiple systems, I recommend that you select the installation directory for Windows 2000, such as C:/Win NT (the required files are relatively small; otherwise, the installation of 2.88 MB Floppy may not work ).

2. Click Next and specify the "soft drive" you just created as prompted ".

3. Click Next to create a wizard to automatically copy the ntfsdos pro boot disk file to the "Floppy Disk ". Open your "Floppy Disk" and have a look. OK! Here is the file we need to access the NTFS partition.

　　Step 3: Use win image to "synthesize" the DOS boot disk image file.

1. Execute win image and click open to go to the installation (decompression) vfloppy directory. Select the boot disk image file boot disk. ing that comes with vfloppy. Open it and expand it to a directory, such as E:/msdos/BOOT disk. Then close the image file.

2. open the image file E:/msdos/ramdisknt and IMG created in step 1, click Add directory, and add the five files E:/msdos/boot kernel, NTFS pro.exeand ntoskrnl.gz respectively, then save the disk and exit.

So far, a DOS boot disk image file with access to the NTFS partition format has been created!

　　Step 4: Use vfloppy to create a pure DOS environment that can access NTFS partitions.

Run vfloppy and select the image file E:/msdos/ramdisknt. IMG created above. Note: "If the C drive (System Disk) uses the NTFS format and the disk is compressed, make sure that the C: boot directory and its files are not compressed ". Click application. vfloppy prompts you to restart the system. After the restart, the new pure dos option is available in the Start Menu.