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Old 04-04-2008   #15
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Do you have a download to make a BCD? I have Nero Ultra 6 and it doesn't make BCDs.
What should i use to make them?
I read the article and there are no links to software and 1 to a site that doesn't exist.
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I found a link that explains how to do the Floppy Emulation.

How To Create a Bootable BIOS ISO Image File

I also hope I can take out the XP disc and insert the driver disc and hav it work...
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Do you have a download to make a BCD? I have Nero Ultra 6 and it doesn't make BCDs.
What should i use to make them?
I read the article and there are no links to software and 1 to a site that doesn't exist.

I'm sorry but you must be mistaken...
I have never seen a paid version of Nero-- or EZCD creator that won't make a BCD... you may need to go to Nero support and download files + read a bit, but you should not need another program.
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Default Re: Difficulties Removing Vista to Install XP

I tried Nero Star smart and it didn't but Nero Burning ROM does but I couldn't get it to work.
It wanted me to copy from a Floppy to CD and either my floppy drive stinks or the discs that I have are so old it wont work and also has caching errors.

Will I be able to read a CD in the F6 area to load a driver while installing XP?

Has anyone tried this?
It is a Gateway Laptop with no floppy drive.
I may have to see if the Best Buy Geek Squad has a floppy drive I can borrow.
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I am getting the urge to burn this laptop!
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I am getting the urge to burn this laptop!
I thought I'd put my two cents worth in here. Two questions:

1. How important is having VISTA on the Laptop?
I ask because I'm concerned that your Vista is from a recovery disk instead of a standard Windows Vista DVD. That might be part of the problems you are experiencing.

2. Do you have the first boot drive in the BIOS setup as the DVD drive?
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Well I did try to remove Vista and just put XP on it.
I could never get XP to recognize the HDD no matter what I did to format the HDD. I tried FAT32, NTFS and unallocated. It just doesn't see the HDD.
Gateway has separate drivers for the SATA Mass storage driver and I think the issue is that I need the XP drivers for the SATA Mass Storage Driver changed so XP can see the HDD but this laptop doesn't have a floppy.
Can I used a USB stick to emulate a Floppy?
I load XP and press F6 to load 3rd party raid driver and all it looks for is a floppy.
I couldn't get a CD to emulate a floppy.
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