won't boot up, can you create bootable CD?

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computer won't boot up. Corrupt registery file, missing Sysem 32 file. Need bootable CD. followed Microsoft instructions to create boot disc, downloaded & wrote to CD. Tried to boot from CD but said cd wasn't bootable cd. Computer doesn't have a floppy drive. How do I get the CD to work? Is there a trick to making a bootable CD? HELP!
 
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| computer won't boot up. Corrupt registery file, missing Sysem 32 file. Need bootable CD. followed
Microsoft instructions to create boot disc, downloaded & wrote to CD. Tried to boot from CD but said cd
wasn't bootable cd. Computer doesn't have a floppy drive. How do I get the CD to work? Is there a trick
to making a bootable CD? HELP!
 
Use your xp disk, it is bootable. Set your bios to boot from the CD as the
first device.


lpo said:
computer won't boot up. Corrupt registery file, missing Sysem 32 file.
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Need bootable CD. followed Microsoft instructions to create boot disc,
downloaded & wrote to CD. Tried to boot from CD but said cd wasn't bootable
cd. Computer doesn't have a floppy drive. How do I get the CD to work?
Is there a trick to making a bootable CD? HELP!
 
Nick Burns said:
Did you get a restore disk...?


have an XP CD.
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In that case, you're best of contacting the manufacturer to see what you're
supposed to do in a situation like this. If you managed to create a bootable
CD from a floppy image, you wouldn't be able to do much with it except look
at a dos prompt.
 
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