Boot disk for Win XP 1

[jvcalara]

How do I prepare an emergency floppy boot disk that has the CDROM enabled? I am thinking of the eventuality of a total hard drive crash and need to put a new one in. Also for a milder situation of merely when there's no boot from the C: drive that is otherwise not dead yet.

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Go to

http://www.bootdisk.com

and download the 6-pack startup floppies..

Murray

 

[gargouille]

I'd prefer getting it directly from MS:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/310994/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/WinXP_EN_PRO_BF.EXE

When unarchived, you create six bootup disks. Pop your XP install disk in your CD drive. Boot up your computer with the first of the 6 floppies created, and follow the prompts.

 

[Snickle]

There's 2 versions of the WinXP setup disks, Pro and HE [1 big file to download for each version then used to create the floppies]. They don't interchange.

 

[linney]

Q305595 - HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q305/5/95.asp

How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP (Q314079)

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q314/0/79.asp

If you copy the files from any old 98 or ME startup floppy to the floppy mentioned in the above articles you should have drivers to access your CD-ROM too.

 

[jvcalara]

Thanks all of you. Your suggestions have been very helpful.