Making a powerful universal optical drive Chinese boot disk

I recently read a few articles about making Chinese boot disks in some newspapers, and I made a Chinese boot disk, which was really successful at the beginning. The Chinese platform can be used in DOS after booting with a floppy disk. The effect is good, but after I upgraded the operating system to Windows XP, the Chinese boot disk failed. Look for the reason that Pdos is missing from the root directory of the C directory in the main boot area. The .def file and the files in the C:\\windows\\command directory, such as Chs16.fon, Pbios.exe, Lx.tbl, Ctrlpan.exe, and Font16.exe, have been discovered through research: in fact, these files do not play too much on the boot disk. The big role is just to play the role of the reference path. Imagine if you did not start the files on the disk that support the Chinese platform, but directly run the Pdos95.bat file in the C:\\windows\\command directory, the effect is the same as using the boot disk. What? The answer is yes, then, is there a Chinese boot disk that can be used without the need for hard disk file support? Yes, the versatile CD-ROM Chinese boot disk made by this method can not only use the universal optical drive but also use the universal Chinese platform. The specific production method is as follows:

Making a versatile Pdos.def file

Because the Chinese platform running by Pdos95.bat needs to read the Pdos.def file on the root directory of the C disk in the main boot area, This file defines the paths to files such as Chs16.fon, Pbios.exe, Lx.tbl, Ctrlpan.exe, and Font16.exe, as well as definitions for shortcuts, input methods, and dictionaries.

First open the Pdos.def file on the root directory of the main boot disk C of the Windows 9x operating system with Notepad (other file editors are also available), and C:\\ in the file. Replace windows\\command with C:, then save it as Pdos.c (remove its read-only attribute before modifying it), then replace C:\\windows\\command with D: and save it as Pdos.d, and so on, and finally produced Pdos.c, Pdos.d, Pdos.e... Pdos.z a total of 24 files. These files are small (more than 2KB) and don't take up too much disk space.

Select the file used by the Chinese platform

Since a floppy disk has 1.44MB of space, we try to reduce the files used. First select the files Chs16.fon, Ctrlpan.exe, Font16.exe, Hzkbd.exe, Hzvio95.exe, Instdict.exe, Lx.tbl, Pbios.exe, Pdos95.bat necessary for the Chinese platform. We only select the input method files. Pinyin input method is Pinyin.tbl, and finally Quit.exe. Put these files and the 24 files generated above into a new folder EBD for later use.

Edit Pdos95.bat file

In order to make this Chinese boot disk truly "universal", you have to modify the Pdos95.bat file. The details of the modification are as follows:

@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST C:\\PDOS.DEF GOTO REN
ECHO.
(empty line)
:REN
REN C:\\PDOS.DEF PDOS.BAK >NUL
ECHO.
(empty line)
COPY %RAMD%:\\PDOS.%RAMD% C:\\PDOS.DEF /Y >NUL
(empty line)
@ECHO ON
(空行)
pbios
font16
hzvio95
hzkbd
instdict pinyin
ctrlpan
(empty line)
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST C:\\PDOS.BAK GOTO DISPLAY
ECHO.
(empty line)
:DISPLAY
ECHO //When using the hard disk to boot the system, please rename Pdos.bak to Pdos .def...
ECHO.

Making EBD.cab compression package

In order to make this boot disk have the boot function of the universal optical drive and use some common DOS commands, You must make a Windows 98 boot disk, the specific method is not detailed here.

Insert the newly built Windows 98 boot disk into the floppy drive, open it with the decompression software, and then extract the EBD.cab into the newly created folder EBD, in order to save space, it will be useful. Too large Scandisk.exe and Scandisk.ini files are deleted. Finally, use the Cabinet Manager to compress all the files in the EBD folder into EBD.cab files. To save floppy disk space, set the compression ratio in the Cabinet Manager option to the highest before compressing (do not compress the entire EBD folder together, only Compress the files in its directory). Cabinet Manager software can be downloaded from all major software download sites.

Test the universal CD-ROM Chinese boot disk

Before the test, copy the newly generated Ebd.cab file to the newly created Windows 98 boot disk (direct coverage), and then use this omnipotent CD-ROM Chinese boot disk write protection. Such a boot disk is done using a floppy disk space of 1.34MB.

In order to verify the "universal" feature of this boot disk, we first choose to test without any hard disk, use this boot disk to start the computer successfully, execute Pdos95.bat, and the DOS system appears. Under the Chinese platform, use "Ctrl+Space" to open the input method. It can also be successfully used on the Windows XP operating system. This "Universal Optical Drive Chinese Boot Disk" is suitable for all FAT or FAT32 partition operating systems such as DOS and Windows 3.1/9x/2000/XP.

Windows 9x users need to pay attention: after using the Chinese platform of the boot disk (that is, after booting Windows 9x from the hard disk), C:, Pdos. Bak was manually renamed to Pdos. Def, at the same time you want to put the original Pdos. Def delete.

In this way, we can safely use the "Universal Optical Drive Chinese Startup Disk". These are some of the author's experience in making Chinese boot disks, hoping to give some help to my friends.