Go ahead...laugh!

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I am trying to learn new things as far as the computer age goes and well, go
ahead...laugh! I know there's a bunch of gurus' in here so let me generalize
my question. I am trying to set up a multi-boot operating system, but I
already have XP on my hard drive. I would like to know when I download XP
Home Edition boot disk so that I can save it as a back-up, does it have to be
6 floppies or can I burn the application to a CD-RW and then just boot it
from that? I mean it seemed to have burned fine but I am not sure if it will
boot once I have taken the current XP off my hard drive.
 
I am trying to learn new things as far as the computer age goes and well, go
ahead...laugh! I know there's a bunch of gurus' in here so let me generalize
my question. I am trying to set up a multi-boot operating system, but I
already have XP on my hard drive. I would like to know when I download XP
Home Edition boot disk so that I can save it as a back-up, does it have to be
6 floppies or can I burn the application to a CD-RW and then just boot it
from that? I mean it seemed to have burned fine but I am not sure if it will
boot once I have taken the current XP off my hard drive.
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Isn't your XP disc bootable? If you can boot from a CD-RW why not just
boot from the XP disc instead?

I'm not sure what you mean about burning the 6 floppies to a CD-RW, but
you should be able to test either the floppies or your bootable CD-RW
without harming your existing installation of XP.
 
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