Trustworthy bootable CD

It looks as though websites claiming to offer a bootable ISO are about as reputable as a guy selling hash on the street.

How would one go about finding a trustworthy source for such a file?

 

Well, that depends on what you are hoping eventually to do with your bootable CD

 

Flash a couple GPU BIOSes from DOS, generally following this guide:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/2010/05/flashing-your-video-cards-gpu-bios/#.USEn2KeylgV

 

Sorry for the delay - life gets in the way sometimes I don't usually get involved in threads that are outside my comfort zone - like overclocking - but if it's just a DOS boot disk you need I can probably help. I've a number of DOS boot disks which i could ISO and upload somewhere, but have you had a look at what's available on bootdisk.com? It's a reliable site but if they don't have what you need post back and we'll take another look.

 

No problem at all -- as always I appreciate the free, on-point advice, and wouldn't think to complain.

I've looked at bootdisk.com, but I guess my concern is that traditional indicia of reliability, e.g. business address, corporate information, any signs of a real-life person, etc., are all completely absent.

Hence my "guy selling hash on the street" metaphor. A boot disk seems like a pretty serious piece of software to be trusting from an unknown source...

 

I've used many of the offerings at bootdisk.com, all with good results.

I think that the lack of "traditional indicia of reliability, e.g. business address, corporate information, any signs of a real-life person, etc." is due to this site being more a labor of love from a geek trying to help others than it is anything else.

 

OK, but bootdisk.com gets a full green rating on WOT on all four criteria and I've used it for at least 15 years without sign of any problems. Absence of 'real' people behind the website wouldn't even cross my mind - 'real' people are far too easily faked. WOT on the other hand represents the actual experience of millions who have used the site.

I know which I'd put my trust in.

 

I suppose you're probably right... ::runs off to try to figure out a way to sue Microsoft for not providing this service::

Can't seem to find anything on bootdisk.com that will boot DOS from a CD...


EDIT:
Any thoughts on the links on this page?

http://www.answersthatwork.com/Down...d_Boot_Disk_Images_and_ISO_free_downloads.htm


EDIT 2:
Forget it! I have decided that I'm going to purchase a crisp new 1.44 floppy drive and do this the old-fashioned way

 

Lord knows how many years ago I used isobuster to create DOS bootable CDs. I'm sure if I played around now I could use imgburn to the same effect. Don't waste your money!

 

Sorry, to clarify, the floppy decision was not to avoid having to keep searching for a proper image file.. it's for 2 other reasons:

1. bootdisk.com says that using a 1.44 drive is the most risk-free way to flash the BIOS on a GPU; I have to flash 2 different $200 cards with 2 different BIOSes, and I want to minimize my risk of hosing the cards. A floppy drive is $10 shipped.

2. I miss having a floppy drive in my computer. :-o



Thanks for the help navigating this issue

 

Rather you than me Good luck with it anyway.

 

On second thought it looks like most floppy drives you can buy today are cheapo and stand a significant risk of cooking your mobo

Not sure what to think now, but I suppose I am leaning towards the bootable CD.. :|

 

I can have a look tomorrow at what I may still have, if anything, or are you OK doing this yourself?

 

1) Download the the Driver Free Disk For BIOS Flashing disk from bootdisk.com.
2) Download a virtual floppy drive from http://www.majorgeeks.com/Simplified_x86x64_Virtual_Floppy_Drive_VFD__d7836.html
3) Get floppy img maker from http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Floopy-Download-18305.html
4) And last get CDXP for burning.
5) Create a floppy drive, run the boot disk and it will be created in your virtual floppy. Copy and bin file and flash tools you need to the floppy.
6) Use floopy and make an image of the disk.
7) Run CDXP, select create a data disk, under disk select boot options, select the floppy image you made and burn the disk.