making a bootable disc

[karmel]

I have an nt machine, i want to reformat with an xp cd. the bios does not give me a choice of booting from the cd rom. I cant seem to find a place to make a disk to do what i want to do.

 

[daslett]

One place that is always a good one for boot disks is

http://www.bootdisk.com

to find miscellaneous disks and utilities.

 

[bcastner]

Did you try hitting F12 at the BIOS splash screen? For machines using the earlier PM method of advanced power management it should offer you a menu for a temporary boot device.

 

[linney]

Read this article fully. It might work for you.

307848 - HOW TO: Start Setup from MS-DOS in Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307848&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

 

[wolluf]

karmel

You can create a set of 6 floppys to start XP setup from here

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

(choice of Home/Pro and SP1 or not - all links to M$). But - if your mobo/bios really doesn't support booting from CD - is the machine up to XP? (if you put XP install cd in CD/DVD rom while running NT, it will autostart, and give you some options - one of which is 'compatibility').