Dr. Mac Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Dear Forum MembersGreetings.At long last ... I've eventually found a boot floppy that allows me to access my external USB CD-RW from DOS! However, I'd really like to know how I can copy and burn files - from DOS - to my external CD-RW (USB)Acronis True Image does a perfect job, and they have obviously got some sort of generic driver that allows you to burb CD'S ... BUT ... it only burns a complete hard drive image.What I'd like to do is to be able to boot off a floppy (or, like Acronis, a few floppies) select certain files (in DOS ... you see ... assuming I'm in trouble and Windows won't boot) ... and then burn them onto a blank CD.Any suggestions would be most appreciated.Thank you.Best wishes,Dr. MacEdit : Sorry - forgot to say : I'm using Win98 SE, have an External USB Memorex CD-RW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 I suppose you are using the Motto Hairu driver with DOs aspi.Have a look here, might be what you need:http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/(it won't fit on a floppy, though, you might need another bootable media)jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Mac Posted January 22, 2005 Author Share Posted January 22, 2005 Greetings!You said :"I suppose you are using the Motto Hairu driver with DOs aspi."? ? ? ?Oops! Sorry ... I'm a real newbie at this "buring files to USB in DOS" thing, so must admit I don't know WHAT you mean !!! BUT ... I'll go and take a lok at the link you provided and see what's going on there.Many thanks for taking the time to post your reply and provide the link. Much appreciated.Best wishes,Dr. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted January 22, 2005 Share Posted January 22, 2005 Why not use bartPE.It is based on windows xp, so it will boot up from cd within a minute, and give you a graphical interface and USB support. It has a plugin to include Nero Burning ROM.So you can do what you asked very easily.bart's PE builder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 23, 2005 Share Posted January 23, 2005 Dr. Mac,please find here some links about USB access from DOS.http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=34410jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Mac Posted January 23, 2005 Author Share Posted January 23, 2005 Greetings guys(Well ... I'm assuming you are both guys!!! )Prathapml :Thanks for the suggestion ... that's the sort of thing I would love to have )Bart's PE) but unfortunately ...1) I don't have any of the WinXP CD's (I only have Win98se)2) I've looked through just a tiny bit of the instructions on how to build a CD, and I started to go weak in the knees. I'm afraid I'm nowhere near THAT level of knowledge or expertise(Now ... if somebody was kind enough to offer me an ISO of an already completed project ... with the Nero plug-in included .... )Jaclaz :Hello once again!Thanks for the link ... I will take a look.Take care chaps, and with my very best wishes ...Dr. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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