BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
User Manual
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
Page 42
Creating a Bootable Floppy Disk
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BC4000-UM100-R
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A
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D
ISK
You must create a bootable floppy disk if you are:
•
Updating the firmware
•
Upgrading your license level from the command line before installing your operating system
To create a DOS-bootable floppy disk:
1.
At a computer running Windows and having both a floppy disk drive and a CD-ROM drive, insert a spare floppy
disk.
2.
Do one of the following depending on which version of Windows you are using:
•
On a Windows 98 operating system, go to the MS-DOS command prompt and type:
format a: /s
Or
•
On a Windows 2000 operating system, perform the following steps.
a. Insert the Windows 2000 CD into the CD-ROM drive.
b. At the command prompt, change to the CD-ROM drive by typing:
x:
where
x:
is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.
c. At the command prompt, type the following.
cd \Valueadd\3rdparty\CA_Antiv
d. At the command prompt, type the following.
makedisk
Or
•
On a Windows XP operating system, do the following:
a. In
My Computer
, right-click drive A and click
Format
.
b. In
Format options
, click the
Create an MS-DOS startup disk
option, and then click
Start
.
Or
•
On a Windows 2003 system, in the
My Computer
window, right-click drive A, and then click
Format
.
Note:
Formatting the disk overwrites any data that may be stored on the disk. This means you should
not format a disk that contains files you do not want to lose.