Originally Posted by
Yarin
Thanks for responce. But I am sure the floppy drive is still in good working order though, in fact, it can read diskettes that other computers think are corrupt.
I just might be out of my mind, I am trying to make a boot disk so that I may build an OS off of it. I know making an OS isn't a walk in the park, but I'm trying anyway.
After learning basic asm, I found a 512 boot sector, and edited it to assemble and work how I like, when I try to read it, windows says it must be formated, and then it says it can't do it. Typical for corrupt floppys. And I thought biosdisk() overwrote the file system, which is why windows thought it was corrupt. But bios says it's not a valid bootdisk, so I got the idea to check the error code. But now it seems like biosdisk() didn't even write to the floppy. So why is it corrupt now?
In a different field, I want to make my OS bootable from a CD anyway, so why am I even toying with floppys?? You might know this, when bios boots from a CD, what files does it look for? I was thinking autorun.inf, but again, thats a windows dohicky. I'll try autoexec.bat first.