The author recently read a few articles about making Chinese boot disks in some newspapers and magazines, and I personally made a Chinese boot disk. It was really successful at the beginning, and can be started after using a floppy disk. The use of the Chinese platform in DOS, the effect is good, but after I upgraded the operating system to Windows XP, the Chinese boot disk failed. Look for the reason that the Pdos.def file and the C:windowscommand directory are missing from the root directory of the C directory in the main boot area. The following files, such as Chs16.fon, Pbios.exe, Lx.tbl, Ctrlpan.exe, and Font16.exe, have been found through research: in fact, these files do not play a big role on the boot disk, but only play the role of 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:windowscommand directory. Is the effect the same as using the boot disk? 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:
Production of the universal Pdos.def file
Because the Chinese platform running by Pdos95.bat needs to read the root directory of the main boot area C drive The Pdos.def file, which defines the paths to files such as Chs16.fon, Pbios.exe, Lx.tbl, Ctrlpan.exe, and Font16.exe, as well as definitions of shortcuts, input methods, and dictionaries.
First use Notepad (other file editors are also available) to open the Pdos.def file on the root directory of the main boot disk C that has Windows 9x operating system installed, and C:windowscommand in the file Replace it with C:, then save it as Pdos.c (remove its read-only attribute before modifying it), then replace C:windowscommand with D: and save it as Pdos.d. By analogy, Pdos.c, Pdos.d, Pdos.e... Pdos.z has 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
Because 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 modified The details are as follows:
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST C:PDOS.DEF GOTO REN
ECHO.
(empty line)
:REN
REN C:PDOS.DEF PDOS. BAK >NUL
ECHO.
(空行)
COPY %RAMD%:PDOS.%RAMD% C:PDOS.DEF /Y >NUL
(空行)
@ ECHO ON
(空行)
pbios
font16
hzvio95
hzkbd
instdict pinyin
ctrlpan
(empty line)
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST C: PDOS.BAK GOTO DISPLAY
ECHO.
(空行)
:DISPLAY
ECHO //When using the hard disk to boot the system, please rename Pdos.bak to Pdos.def ......
ECHO.Production 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.
the newly built Windows 98 boot disk into the floppy drive, using decompression software to open it, and then decompress EBD.cab to the newly created folder above EBD, in order to save space you want to use is not 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 universal drive Chinese boot disk
Please copy the newly generated Ebd.cab file to the newly created Windows 98 boot disk before testing (direct coverage) ), and then this universal optical drive Chinese boot disk write protection. Such a boot disk is done using a floppy disk space of 1.34MB.
order to verify the "universal" feature of this boot disk, we first choose to test in the absence of any hard disk linked with this startup disk to start your computer, if you run Pdos95.bat, appeared DOS system 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 Note: After using a boot disk Chinese platform (ie Windows 9x start from the hard disk), to C:, Pdos. Bak was manually renamed to Pdos. Def, at the same time you want to put the original Pdos. Def delete.
so that we can safely use the "universal boot disk drive Chinese" was. These are some of the author's experience in making Chinese boot disks, hoping to give some help to my friends.