Bootable CD

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John

Hi,

I want to run the program memtest86 to check the computer's RAM. This
program cannot be started in XP, so what I need is an OS on a CD I
guess (there no floppy drive).
So how do you burn a Dos-like OS on a CD, thus creating a bootable CD?
Of course, memtest86 should be burned on the CD as well.
OS is XP SP2, motherboard is ASRock P4VT8+.

Thanks in advance.
 
John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to run the program memtest86 to check the computer's RAM. This
> program cannot be started in XP, so what I need is an OS on a CD I
> guess (there no floppy drive).
> So how do you burn a Dos-like OS on a CD, thus creating a bootable CD?
> Of course, memtest86 should be burned on the CD as well.
> OS is XP SP2, motherboard is ASRock P4VT8+.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

If you do a Google search for "Bootable CD" you will get quite a lot of
information. You can also boot from a USB Flash Drive if your system
BIOS supports it.

To run memtest86 you don't have to boot with Windows XP. Good ole' MSDOS
or FreeDOS will work too. Get that here: http://www.freedos.org/


Mark
 
John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to run the program memtest86 to check the computer's RAM. This
> program cannot be started in XP, so what I need is an OS on a CD I
> guess (there no floppy drive).
> So how do you burn a Dos-like OS on a CD, thus creating a bootable CD?
> Of course, memtest86 should be burned on the CD as well.
> OS is XP SP2, motherboard is ASRock P4VT8+.
>
> Thanks in advance.

http://www.bootdisk.com
 
"John" <john@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I want to run the program memtest86 to check the computer's RAM. This
> program cannot be started in XP, so what I need is an OS on a CD I
> guess (there no floppy drive).
> So how do you burn a Dos-like OS on a CD, thus creating a bootable CD?
> Of course, memtest86 should be burned on the CD as well.
> OS is XP SP2, motherboard is ASRock P4VT8+.
>
> Thanks in advance.

You may want to get a USB floppy drive; they are not expensive.

There are also Windows-based memory testers.

IIRC, theWindows Memory Diagnostic can produce an bootable ISO image that
you can just burn to a CD.

http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

HTH
-pk
 
"John" <john@hotmail.com> wrote
> Hi,
>
> I want to run the program memtest86 to check the computer's RAM. This
> program cannot be started in XP, so what I need is an OS on a CD I
> guess (there no floppy drive).
> So how do you burn a Dos-like OS on a CD, thus creating a bootable CD?
> Of course, memtest86 should be burned on the CD as well.
> OS is XP SP2, motherboard is ASRock P4VT8+.


Use memtest86+. Get it here:
http://www.memtest.org/

You can download an .iso file which is a bootable image. Burn it to CD with
a program that can burn an .iso file as an image. Most 3rd party CD burning
programs can do this

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
 
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John wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to run the program memtest86 to check the computer's RAM. This
> program cannot be started in XP, so what I need is an OS on a CD I
> guess (there no floppy drive).
> So how do you burn a Dos-like OS on a CD, thus creating a bootable CD?
> Of course, memtest86 should be burned on the CD as well.
> OS is XP SP2, motherboard is ASRock P4VT8+.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
You can download the Linux live CD, let's say, from
http://www.ubuntu.com, it actually has memtest as a part of it's boot menu.

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