This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully legal,
activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can I
possibly create a boot CD with the files on my hard drive, supposedly the
i386 folder? I need this only in case of catastrophic hard drive failure. I
understand that the Bart PE Builder can do this in most cases, but in mine,
I have only the i386 folder to work with. FYI, I do have the Product Key
for XP Pro, etc.

Is there hope? Comments please. Thanks.

EW

Can you not Ghost your drive at the present state, incase of the
"catastrophic hard drive failure" then at least you can get back to that
until you find another means of 'obtaining' a Windows XP disk?

"EW" <ewyatt__delme__@excite.com> wrote in message
news:477ff871$0$47106$(E-Mail Removed)...
> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully
> legal, activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can
> I possibly create a boot CD with the files on my hard drive, supposedly
> the i386 folder? I need this only in case of catastrophic hard drive
> failure. I understand that the Bart PE Builder can do this in most cases,
> but in mine, I have only the i386 folder to work with. FYI, I do have the
> Product Key for XP Pro, etc.
>
> Is there hope? Comments please. Thanks.
>
> EW
>
>

"EW" <ewyatt__delme__@excite.com> wrote in message
news:477ff871$0$47106$(E-Mail Removed)...
> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully
> legal, activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can
> I possibly create a boot CD with the files on my hard drive, supposedly
> the i386 folder? I need this only in case of catastrophic hard drive
> failure. I understand that the Bart PE Builder can do this in most cases,
> but in mine, I have only the i386 folder to work with. FYI, I do have the
> Product Key for XP Pro, etc.
>
> Is there hope? Comments please. Thanks.
>
> EW
>
>

Here are a few options:
- Create an image with an imaging product such as Acronis
TrueImage as recommended by Kardon.
- Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD and use xcopy.exe
or robocopy.exe to copy the existing system to an external
USB disk.
- Temporarily install the disk as a slave disk in some other
WinXP PC and use xcopy as above.

If you do not already have a Bart PE boot CD then you will
need a WinXP Professional CD to make one. Burn one from
a friend's CD - sooner or later you will need it!

See this tutorial for details:
http://www.howtohaven.com/system/cre...etupdisk.shtml

Good luck!

"EW" <ewyatt__delme__@excite.com> wrote in message
news:477ff871$0$47106$(E-Mail Removed)...
> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully legal,
> activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can I
> possibly create a boot CD with the files on my hard drive, supposedly the
> i386 folder? I need this only in case of catastrophic hard drive failure. I
> understand that the Bart PE Builder can do this in most cases, but in mine,
> I have only the i386 folder to work with. FYI, I do have the Product Key
> for XP Pro, etc.
>
> Is there hope? Comments please. Thanks.
>
> EW
>
>

"David Webb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:u8qvSd%(E-Mail Removed)...
> See this tutorial for details:
> http://www.howtohaven.com/system/cre...etupdisk.shtml
>
> Good luck!

That's a nicely written and very comprehensive page!

EW wrote:
>
> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully legal,
> activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can I

One should always have the intatalltion CD for the OS you want to use.








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"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
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> EW wrote:
>>
>> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully
>> legal,
>> activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can I
>
> One should always have the intatalltion CD for the OS you want to use.
>

Sure. Just like one should always have enough money in the bank to forego
getting a loan. Or have their cholesterol level below 200. Or.....
Please, things happen!

On Jan 5, 6:29*pm, Plato <|@|.|> wrote:
> EW wrote:
>
> One should always have the intatalltion CD for the OS you want to use.

You should seriously consider changing your moniker to "worthless
****tard".

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:30:07 -0600, "Clearwire Mail"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
> "Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message
> news:47802046$0$19310$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > EW wrote:
> >>
> >> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully
> >> legal,
> >> activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can I
> >
> > One should always have the intatalltion CD for the OS you want to use.
> >
>
> Sure. Just like one should always have enough money in the bank to forego
> getting a loan.


Right.


> Or have their cholesterol level below 200.


Right again.


> Or.....
> Please, things happen!



Unfortunately, one doesn't always get to control all the important
things in one's life. For example, as you undoubtedly mean to point
out, not everyone *can* get their cholesterol level below 200.

But there are things that you *can* control. This is one of them. When
Plato says "One should always have the intatalltion CD for the OS you
want to use," he is correct.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Clearwire Mail wrote:
>
> >> This may be recurring, but... I have a Windows XP Pro system, fully
> >> legal,
> >> activated, etc., but without any installation CD. My question: can I
> >
> > One should always have the intatalltion CD for the OS you want to use.
>
> Sure. Just like one should always have enough money in the bank to forego
> getting a loan. Or have their cholesterol level below 200. Or.....
> Please, things happen!

Correct. Having the money to pay for something you want to buy is ALWAYS
better then paying interest and hoping you have a job in the future to
pay back a loan. And yes, eating correctly is the best thing.






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