creating boot disk

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Chris Lanier

You dont really need one. your Windows XP cd-rom is bootable for repairing
and reinstall Windows XP. you can use a Windows 98 boot disk, but if your
hard drive is formatted in NTFS it will not do much good.

www.bootdisk.com
 
My first time here.I just got this new puter with XP Pro,
can anyone tell me how to make a boot disk with this
thing,it wasso easy with 95 and 98.Thank you in advance,
Chuck
 
The XP CD is in fact bootable but should something take
your CD drive out then a floppy boot set is a good backup.
You can go to places like www.voodoofiles.com and get a
utility to help you make a floppy boot set. For XP HE it
took six floppies to do this. You should note though that
some computers are now being sold without floppy drives in
them and that floppy disks will be ancient history in the
near future. Keep smiling.
 
My first time here.I just got this new puter with XP Pro,
can anyone tell me how to make a boot disk with this
thing,it wasso easy with 95 and 98.Thank you in advance,
Chuck
Click to expand...

1. Insert floppy in A: drive
2. Open My Computer
3. Right click Floppy drive icon
4. Select Format
5. Select 'Create a MSDOS startup disk' (or whatever)
6. Click OK

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
Peter said:
1. Insert floppy in A: drive
2. Open My Computer
3. Right click Floppy drive icon
4. Select Format
5. Select 'Create a MSDOS startup disk' (or whatever)
6. Click OK

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
Click to expand...

You don't need a boot disk with XP - the CD is bootable and contains all the
tools you need to repair your system, or do a complete format and
re-install.
 
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