Minimum boot files needed?

[anlaoch]

Hi.

Does anyone know why it is that if you copy the boot files from a floppy onto a dvd, the pc won't boot from the dvd? I've a bootable floppy created by ghost, which works fine, but if I copy all files (including the hidden ones) onto a dvd, the machine won't recognise them? I'm using the boot menu to instruct the pc to boot from the drive the dvd is in, but it ignores the drive, and boots from C:\ instead.

Anyone any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Sonic]

You can't copy files from floppy and put into cd or dvd ...

You can burn new CD or DVD with bootable options with Nero and you need to put the binaries files in options (for floppy it's a image of floppy with 1,44mb size) and the media will boot same as your old floppy but in fact the media "emulate" the floppy ... to access your media you need some configuration, by default floppy win98 boot can access cdrom drive ...