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Creating a Boot Disk

This covers creating a boot disk with code to create a startup disk that loads the Operating system.

This screen shop shows the prosesses need to create a bootable startup disk.

The key elements are :
• Write your boot sector.
• It's not too difficult to load the root sector and edit the code for your own use.
• Write Code to install your boot sector.
• Clear unwanted FAT entries (if you need a boot only disk).
• Clear unwanted Root Directory files (if you need a boot only disk).
• Write the startup files (if you have some) to disk.
• Write the new FAT to disk (if you are adding startup files).
• Write the new Root Directory to Disk (if you are adding startup files).

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Last Update 27/12/2022