SAB Diskette Utility uses IOCTL to copy the boot sector of your C: drive when creating a system (bootable) diskette. This is done to make sure that the boot sector of the diskette is compatible with the version of DOS that your are using. Some hard disk device drivers do not support direct IOCTL access. If you are unable to create a system diskette because of restricted access to the C: drive boot sector you can create a file containing a copy of the boot sector of your C: drive by using the following command: DEBUG < GETBOOTC.DBG This will create a 512 byte file called SABDUSEC.DOS which will contain a copy of the boot sector from your C: drive. You can tell SAB Diskette Utility to use it by adding the following line to the SAB.INI file in your \WINDOWS directory: BootSectorFile=d:\path\SABDUSEC.DOS where d:\path\ is the drive and path that the SABDUSEC.DOS file is in. For example if you have installed SAB Diskette Utility in C:\SABDU then do the following: C: CD \SABDU DEBUG < GETBOOTC.DBG and add the following line to SAB.INI in your \WINDOWS directory: BootSectorFile=C:\SABDU\SABDUSEC.DOS You can also specify the name of the system files that will be used to create the system (bootable) diskette: IOSysFile= MSDosSysFile= CommandComFile= The first two specify the names of the two hidden files that are part of the boot-strap loading process. The third one, CommandComFile specifies the operating system shell.