Hi all, Thank you for your considered responses. I am sorry I didn't provide enough info in the original post. I have an ardic transport, an accent sa, and a blt that can be pressed into service for what I need. I have a toshiba companion boot floppy which I would like to use to repair my DVD rom drive. I believe if I have windows 98 on this machine here. As far as I know, it makes no difference where the diagnostic programs are. So, in theory, I could have a talking boot flopy for dos, and run the diagnostic program either off another floppy, or off the hard drive. I have rawrite that I can use to create floppies from images if necessary. Thanks all, Erik ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Crawford <ccrawford@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 8:21 PM Subject: Re: OT Talking dos boot disk > DOS diags that talk? What speech are you going to run? It is easy enough > to create a talking diskette but how large is your diag program? > > -- > -- Charlie Crawford > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >