How to Create a Very Nice "Administrator's Toolkit" - Step 9: Extra Stuff (Mostly DOS Utilities)

 

1.  Under the NTFS folder, I have the demo (read only) NTFSPRO files for WinNT,2K,XP,2K3 in their own folders (Read access to ntfs drives, use with loadsys)

2.  Under the UTILS folder, create folders called ASPI, BURN, USB, DEVLDRS, LFN, MOUSE, RAMDISK, RAWRITE, TESTDISK, ZIP, CHNTPW and BCWIPEPD

3.  ***IMPORTANT*** In order to run or access files or folders in DOS with an ISO Level 4 filesystem they MUST be uppercased!!!!

3.  Download cdrtools for DOS at http://cdrtools.bootcd.ru/  and copy CDRECORD.EXE and MKISOFS.EXE to BURN (For CD Burning of course)

4.  Download and copy the various LFN tools to LFN (For Long File Names)

5.  Download and copy whatever mouse drivers you want to MOUSE (For Mouse use)

6.  Download and copy RAWRITE.EXE (for DOS) to RAWRITE (For writing floppy images)

4.  Download and copy XMSDSK.EXE to RAMDISK (XMSDSK [size in Kbytes] [drive:]) (RAMDisk needed for file copying and ISO creation)

8.  Download and copy LOADSYS.EXE to DEVLDRS     (loadsys /r r:\utils\aspi\aspi.sys will load aspi.sys from the command line and loadsys /u will unload it)

9.  Download and copy all the DOS USB drivers you want to USB in their own folders (If you want to try and use USB devices in DOS)

10. Download and copy ASPI.SYS to ASPI (This is needed so cdrecord can work...ie cdrecord -scanbus ...etc   use loadsys.exe to load)

11.  Download and copy the DOS port of chntpw to CHNTPW (read/write access to ntfs drives and password changing)

12.  Download and copy all Testdisk (for DOS) files to TESTDISK (For partition table editing)

13.  Download BCWipe and copy BCWIPEPD.EXE to BCWIPEPD (For secure hard disk writing)

14.  Download PKZip for DOS and copy PKZIP.EXE to ZIP

15.  ***Are all your files and folders uppercased?***

16.  Goto Step 10: Create The ISO