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Contents > Procedures
Creating a Bootable Floppy Manually
A bootable floppy can be created manually in 2 steps:
- Prepare a bootable floppy disk or startup disk
- Copy UNERASER.EXE,
DOS4GW.EXE files to the bootable floppy disk or
startup disk in drive A:.
STEP 1.
Preparing a
bootable floppy disk or startup disk.
Put a blank 3.5-inch
floppy in the floppy drive (A:) and follow the appropriate
instructions below for:
a) On the screen, type the format command as follows (see
figure below):
FORMAT A: /S
b) Follow on-screen messages until process is complete.
Figure 3-1 DOS Format Progress Messages
a) Click the Start button and click
Settings, Control Panel.
b) From the Control Panel screen, click
Add/Remove Programs.
c) In the Add/Remove Programs screen, click the
Startup Disk tab.
d) Click the Startup Disk button and follow the screen instructions until the process is complete.
Figure 3-2 Windows Format Startup Disk Screen
a) Right-click A: drive.
b) From the drop-down menu, click Format...
c) Enable the checkbox beside Create a
MS-DOS startup disk.
d) Click the Start button and follow the
screen instructions until the process is complete.
Important Note for
Windows XP:
If you have created a MS-DOS boot disk in
Windows XP, you will have to delete some files to make some more
room on the disk.
Delete the files:
EGA2.CPI, EGA3.CPI, EGA.CPI, KEYB.COM,
KEYBOARD.SYS, KEYBRD2.SYS, KEYBRD3.SYS, KEYBRD4.SYS, MODE.COM,
DISPLAY.SYS.
That should free up enough space to fit both UNERASER.EXE and
DOS4GW.EXE files.
STEP 2.
Copying Active@ UNERASER, DOS4GW.EXE files.
Copy the Active@ UNERASER file (UNERASER.EXE),
DOS4GW.EXE file to the bootable floppy disk or
startup disk in drive A:.
If you don’t have the Active@ UNERASER file, download it from
http://www.uneraser.com.
After copying the files onto the floppy disk, remove
the floppy from the floppy drive.
Once preparation of the bootable 3.5-inch floppy disk is complete, you are
ready to begin
recovering data.
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