How do I create a bootable CD-ROM containing ERD Commander/Professional?

Install ERD Commander/Professional as usual which creates a number of startup disks based on the NT installation diskettes (3 for Commander, 4 for Professional)

Create a directory on a partition called ERD

Create a subdirectory i386 (e.g. c:ERDi386)

Copy the content of all disks to this i386 directory

Download and extract Service Pack 5
C:> SP5I386 /X

Any files that are in the ERDi386 directory that are also included with SP5 replace with the SP5 version (including files in the system32 directory EXCEPT Smss.exe which is core to ERD Commander). There are a lot of these but it will allow you to access NTFS 5.0 partitions and has a number of fixes. This step is not compulsory but recommended

Download files bootsec.bin and CDROM_w.40. Place them both in the ERD directory.

Copy the files
- ntdetect.com
- setupldr.bin
- txtsetup.sif
from the ERDi386 directory to the ERD directory (but do NOT remove from the ERDi386 directory)

Start your CD-ROM burning software (CDRWIN from http://www.goldenhawk.com is recommended) but whatever software you use it must support creating a bootable CD-ROM

Add the ERD directory to the CD image BUT ERD should be the root and so I386 should be a subdirectory off of the root of the CD so you should not have on the CD a directory ERDI386, just I386, and the 3 files in the ERD directory would be on the root of the CD.

Remember options:
- ISO9660 File system (no Joliet )
- No version numbers
- BOOTABLE CD : emulation : none (custom) load sector count : 4 load segment (default) 07C0H
- The boot sector image is the bootsec.bin you downloaded
There is an example of creating a 2000 disk at Q. How do I create a bootable Windows 2000 installation CD-ROM? which is basically the same as this (goto step 7)

Create your CD! You should now be able to boot off of it. I tried this last night and it worked great. If you have problems download the word document listed at the start, however I never had to edit setupldr.bin and if you use my boot sector image you won't need to do that part either.