The popular and easy-to-use CD burning system Nero Burning Rom supports burning not only ordinary CDs and DVDs with data, music and video; but also the creation of special bootable disks from which you can load the operating system at startup and install it.
Necessary
Nero Burning Rom, CD / DVD
Instructions
Step 1
Go to the menu and select the "Create a new project" item. The program will offer you various options for the types of discs to burn, choose a bootable (Boot) CD-ROM. To keep things simple, we'll look at creating a simple disk to boot the DOS system.
After selecting the disk type, the settings window will open, in which you need to select the Boot or boot tab. In this tab, select the data source of the boot image, specify the path to the address of the image used as a boot image, or to a separate sector of your hard disk.
Step 2
The source of data for a DOS system image can be not only a disk sector, but also an ordinary boot floppy disk, which can be created directly in Windows. In this case, in the list of selection of data sources, you need to mark the first source and specify the path to your floppy disk.
In additional settings, specify the required type of emulation - Floppy drive. Choosing no emulation is not worth it, this option is more suitable for professionals.
Step 3
How do I create an MS-DOS bootable floppy disk? It shouldn't take you more than five minutes to create a floppy disk. Open My Computer and right-click on the floppy disk icon to bring up the context menu. Click "Format" and a window will open in which you can specify options for formatting the floppy disk. At the very bottom of the window you will see the column "Create a bootable MS-DOS disk", put a tick in it and click the "Start" button, having previously inserted a blank floppy disk into the drive. When the formatting process is complete, you will receive a complete MS-DOS boot diskette.
Step 4
Now go back to the Nero program in which you will create a bootable CD. Continue creating a new disk (New) with the above parameters (Boot) and the floppy disk in the Floppy drive. Then click "Burn" and wait for the end of the disc burning.
Step 5
If you want, add other information to your CD, for example, the necessary programs for configuring the system. They won't interfere with the boot sector. In order for the computer to start booting from your disk, do not forget to go into BIOS settings and specify the CD-ROM as Boot Device.
