What to put on your Boot Disk?

[ablang]

What kinds of programs do you really need?

This is what I thought of so far. Please feel free to add stuff I didn't think of.

"system files" (using sys a http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif
format
fdisk
edit
autoexec.bat
config.sys
"cd-rom device drivers"

[Steve R Jones]

extract.exe

[narayan]

debug.exe can be handy.

[Jonty]

Here's a very useful post by BBA: http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/000956.html
I haven't had to use it yet but its good to know that it is there ready to use in case of emergency.

[DanU]

I also like to have DELTREE, DOSKEY, PKZIP and PKUNZIP on my boot disk. MSD.EXE is useful in some instances.

[Sixpac]

I also put mscdex.exe, himem.sys and doskey.com

[psyklone]

smartdrv.exe