Bootup disk

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I know that it is possible to download a boot up disk from the web and
I might have to do it, but I saw idly browsing my XP a few days ago
and I'm sure that I saw such an option. Am I going mad. I've checked
my XP power users tome and I can't find any mention of it.

Colin
 
How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard
Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314079

The Windows XP installation CD is also a "startup disk"
and contains the tools necessary to perform repairs.

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Windows XP - Shell/User
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Get Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:
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| I know that it is possible to download a boot up disk from the web and
| I might have to do it, but I saw idly browsing my XP a few days ago
| and I'm sure that I saw such an option. Am I going mad. I've checked
| my XP power users tome and I can't find any mention of it.
|
| Colin
 
The Windows XP CD is bootable so you don't really need anything else. You
can download a set of 6 floppy disks from the Microsoft website to boot your
pc in order to start the installation. This is more for people who, at the
time of XP's release did not have a CD-drive.
You can create and Emergency Boot Disk which, should you have boot.ini
problems will boot your machine to the desktop. You can find details of how
to create one of those on my website http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org Click
the Win XP Faq button and look at quesion 10
Alternatively you may be thinking of and ASR (automatic System recovery
disk) which is can only be created in Windows XP Professional.
 
I know that it is possible to download a boot up disk from the web and
I might have to do it, but I saw idly browsing my XP a few days ago
and I'm sure that I saw such an option. Am I going mad. I've checked
my XP power users tome and I can't find any mention of it.

Colin
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You have a "boot-up disk" - it's called the Windows XP CD.
 
I know that it is possible to download a boot up disk from the web and
I might have to do it, but I saw idly browsing my XP a few days ago
and I'm sure that I saw such an option. Am I going mad. I've checked
my XP power users tome and I can't find any mention of it.

Colin
Click to expand...
Many thanks.

The reason I was looking for a floppy disk was because it was for a
friend who is not much good with computers. He will take the machine
to his weekend retreat at the other end of the country where help is
difficult so I fixed up a sort of spare wheel for him. It's a second
hard drive with a clone of the first. The "spare wheel" has a
partition holding an image of the first drive but is not cabled up, so
it is inert.

If the first goes down he only has to open the system box and move the
cable from first to second drive and he is up and running again. He
was suggesting that he should then format the drive c: and squirt the
image back on and revert to the first drive.

That's why I was looking for a bootable floppy. Would a Win98SE start
up disk do the job?

If he had to use his XP CD how would he get into formatting without
installing?

Colin
 
He would make the first drive a slave to the second when the second
becomes master, then from within windows xp right click the drive to be
formated and select Format.
HTH...Peter
 
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