What are the alternatives? (Trying to avoid working on VM.)

If this is not an option, do I always need to use either 'debug' or 'partcopy' to copy all other files into the disk?Ĭan I copy the second stage and/or other files into any empty sectors?ĭebug command is gone in Windows 7 and partcopy windows version didn't allow me to write on the first sector of the disk. How do I make windows acknowledge the bootloader I wrote, so that I can copy other files in? (Or is it even possible?) Do you want to format it now?' At this stage, I got some questions in a row.

I clicked the A: icon on the windows explorer, trying to copy it, but the message I got was 'The disk in drive A: is not formatted. To make this happen, I need to copy the second stage bootloader into the floppy disk. Now, I am trying to load the second stage bootloader (or kernel) into the memory by reading sectors: I wrote the second stage bootloader to be read as well as modified first stage bootloader. I used 'debug' command on my Windows XP virtual machine, to write on the first sector of floppy disk image. I recently wrote a simple bootloader in assembly for floppy disk booting.

Floppy disk is not formatted