How to Make a Boot Disk for a Gateway Computer
A boot disk is a disk that contains instructions for "booting" the PC into either DOS or an operating system installation screen. This is necessary for making certain changes to the system, as some cannot be made within the operating system located on the hard drive. Creating a boot disk is a fairly simple procedure that will only require one blank CD and the use of commercially available CD burning software.
Navigate to the page in Resources to download the appropriate boot disk for your model of Gateway computer. After finding your model in the list, click the attached link and download the ISO image. An ISO image is a bootable file that can be burned to a CD-R to create a boot disk.
Insert a blank CD-R into your computer's CD drive.
Open your commercial burning software. Create a "Data Disk" and set the ISO file for the Gateway boot disk to be burned on the blank CD. Initiate the burning procedure and set the burn speed to the slowest possible rate (normally "1x") to ensure that the disk is created without any errors.
Reboot the computer with the newly created boot disk in the CD drive. While the computer is loading, you will be presented with a screen that says "Press any key to boot from CD." Do so, and you will have successfully booted from your newly created disk.
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