Problems booting to Dos in Vista 64

fatboy1976 · Jan 18, 2009

I read the tutorial on this site regarding flashing the Radeon 4850 bios, using ATIFlash. I'm stuck at the first hurdle because I don't know how to make the boot disc.
I don't have a floppy drive and Virtual Floppy doesn't work with 64.
Can anyone help me out?

Thanks

sneekypeet · Jan 18, 2009

USB thumb drive, and google something called the HP USB boot utility. With those two things and ATIflash and a bios file you should be good to go.

If you need help as to how to flash with a USB drive. there are tutorials all over the net as well as here in our archives as well.

alexp999 · Jan 18, 2009

This has to be the best guide IMO. I recommend it to everyone:

http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

fatboy1976 · Jan 18, 2009

I tried setting up a USb thumbdrive but my computer won't boot from it. I need to make a boot-cd somehow. Any ideas?

alexp999 · Jan 18, 2009

What mobo you got? Did you try setting the USB key as the boot device?

fatboy1976 · Jan 18, 2009

Gigabyte EP45-UD3R board. I enabled Legacy USB support and set the boot device to USB-HDD, but it doesn't boot from the USB drive at all.

alexp999 · Jan 18, 2009

Hmm you followed that quide and it still couldnt boot. What did the bios say when it tired to boot from the USB?

fatboy1976 · Jan 18, 2009

It didn't say anything. It just booted into Vista as per normal.

oily_17 · Jan 18, 2009

You can use this to make a bootable CD.

There is a Read Me to tell you how it works included in the zip file.

fatboy1976 · Jan 19, 2009

I tried using the Flashcd image but this is what happens when I boot from the disc:

CDROM device driver for IDE (Four Channels Supported)
© Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1993-1996

Driver version : V340
Device Name : TOMATO

No drivers found, aborting installation

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
Copyright © 1976, 1998 Caldera, INC.

Device driver not found: 'TOMATO'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected

The bootfiles are in drive letter A:
You bios utilities are in driver letter R:

Strike a key when ready . . .

(I now pressed a key)

Bootdisk.Com
A:\>

That's as far as I can go. I can't actually get to drive R because it says it's an invalid directory.

Mussels · Jan 19, 2009

fatboy1976 said:
Gigabyte EP45-UD3R board. I enabled Legacy USB support and set the boot device to USB-HDD, but it doesn't boot from the USB drive at all.

because gigabyte have a retarded monkey coding their BIOS, you have to tell it to boot from HDD in the boot selection menu, and then the USB drive shows as a USB-HDD.

I had to do just that with a gigabyte P35 last week.

fatboy1976 · Jan 19, 2009

I did all of that. I changed the boot priority to USB-HDD and I hit F12 to choose the USB-HDD. Each time, it just booted into Vista. Is this a Vista problem?

Mussels · Jan 19, 2009

fatboy1976 said:
I did all of that. I changed the boot priority to USB-HDD and I hit F12 to choose the USB-HDD. Each time, it just booted into Vista. Is this a Vista problem?

the problem is that you're choosing USB HDD. you need to choose HDD, and then pick the USB drive from the list.

THe problem is not vista, its gigabytes illogical BIOS boot menu.

fatboy1976 · Jan 19, 2009

Thanks for the help. I got the USB drive to boot but another problem occurred.
The Win98 splash screen appeared, followed by this error message:
EMM386: Unrecoverable privileged operation error #9

This is beginning to drive me crazy, but I don't want to quit just yet!

Mussels · Jan 19, 2009

fatboy1976 said:
Thanks for the help. I got the USB drive to boot but another problem occurred.
The Win98 splash screen appeared, followed by this error message:
EMM386: Unrecoverable privileged operation error #9

This is beginning to drive me crazy, but I don't want to quit just yet!

I think you need my flash drive toolkit

PM me an email address and i'll send it over to you, it has instructions + tools to get a working win98 bootable flash drive.

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