Boot Disk

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Bill Gant

I would like to make a boot disk on floppy drive for
Windows XP. I need to format my C:\drive and I have no
way to restart the Windows XP without the floppy boot.

Thanks,

Bill
 
Go to My computer, right click on (A:), choose format,
and click the box labeled "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"

Or, find a friend with Windows ME or earlier, go to
start, control panel, add/remove programs, and click the
tab that applies to making a startup disk.
 
Thank, so much Kevin. I was really in a bind as I have to
get things ready to start getting quotes on corn in the
morning.

Thanks again,

Bill
 
In addition to the other response, if your system can boot from the CD-ROM
drive and you have a retail version of XP you can boot from the CD, format
and run setup in one operation as follows:
Boot with the XP CD in the drive. When you see the message on the boot
screen to "Press any key in order to boot from the CD," do so.

After loading drivers and files, you should be taken to a screen with
the following:

To Setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
To Repair a Windows XP Installation using Recovery Console press R.
To Quit setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.

In your case, press ENTER.

Agree to the License agreement by pressing F8.

You will then be taken to a screen with two options.

To repair the selected Windows XP installation press R.
To continue installing a fresh copy of Windows XP without repairing,
press ESC.

This will bring you to a partition map where you
can delete, create and format partitions.
Select the drive you wish to format, delete the partition, then create a new
partition, format as desired and continue with XP installation.
 
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Kevin Banyai said:
Go to My computer, right click on (A:), choose format,
and click the box labeled "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"

Or, find a friend with Windows ME or earlier, go to
start, control panel, add/remove programs, and click the
tab that applies to making a startup disk.
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