Hi,

I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not ship
with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to make a
Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2.

Many thanks in advance!!!

Troubled wrote:
> I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did
> not ship with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy
> way to make a Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP
> Professional SP2.

Only if you have all the files - in which case - you would most likely
already have a Windows XP CD, eh?

What is the Bluescreen complaining about?

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Troubled wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not
> ship with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to
> make a Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2.
>
> Many thanks in advance!!!

What is the make and model of your laptop? Did you buy it second-hand?
Is there an i386 folder on your C: drive?

If a set of disks did not come with the computer, there will be a hidden
Recovery partition (not to be confused with System Restore) you would use to
do a clean install.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Troubled wrote:
> I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not ship
> with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to make a
> Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2.
>
> Many thanks in advance!!!

In article <#(E-Mail Removed)>,
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> If a set of disks did not come with the computer, there will be a hidden
> Recovery partition (not to be confused with System Restore) you would use to
> do a clean install.

and if the reinstall partition is gone there are many sources for OEM
media.
Like eBay!