Yui Shin wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> Jose E. Dominguez wrote:
>
> > Yui Shin wrote:
> >
> YS> > Please clarify which versions of Win 95 CD's are bootable.
> > > If there's one, I have plenty of  customer's that would love
> > > to have it. I have Win95a, 95b, neither of which have the
> > > necessary file for booting like NT, 98, and 98SE.
> >
> JD> What file is this? Browsing a 95, 98 CD, I don't see any files on one
> >that are
> > not on the other. the NT CD does have a different file but I'm sure it's
> NT
> > related and has got nothing to do with booting.
> >
> > Jose
> >
>
>  YS replies:
>     The file is encoded into the cd during production and is not visible
> on Windows or DOS. It works similar to a music cd. Windows knows
> to auto-start a music cd based on a confirmation pulse from your cd
> drive. This is why music cd's load even though you can't see the file
> image which starts it. This file image is visible using a cd analyzer, but
> it can't see the contents just the pulse pattern. If I was to geuss, I would
> say it's encoded with a hexadecimal address referencing boot procedure
> in the form of Assembly language.
>
> best regards -yui shin

Interesting, I suspected something like this.

Discard the 95 CD's form the list then, I was not able to boot from the one I
got. I thought I had booted one at one point but I guess not.

Regards,

Jose

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