Emergency Disk XP

[Michael Margarit]

How do I create a emergency disk for XP home edition?
Thanks in advance

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard
Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314079


The Windows XP installation CD is also a "startup disk" or ERD
and contains the tools necessary to perform repairs.


How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups


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| How do I create a emergency disk for XP home edition?
| Thanks in advance

 

[Donny Broome]

What exactly is your goal? This will help us steer you in the right
direction.


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[Bob Harris]

The XP CD is bootable, and you can run the recovery console from it. That
can fix a few things (e.g., run CKDSK), but is not a good way to save a lot
of files from a corrupted XP installation, since it does not support bulk
copies, only singel file copies.

Friendlier and more powerful alternative is to make a Bart's bootable CD, or
to burn a KNOPPIX CD from the free ISO. See links below:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Also, mentioned in a previous reply, the XP CD can be used to run a "repair"
installation.

Finally, if you do not have an XP CD (some PC don't come with them), then be
aware that you can download a multi-floppy disk set from Micosoft and run
the recovery console from those. They are called setup dsks, but they can
also be used to fix some things:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994

 

[Ken Blake]

In

How do I create a emergency disk for XP home edition?
Thanks in advance

Because the XP Installation CD is bootable, most people don't
need any other emergency startup diskette. Also, if your hard
drive is NTFS, it won't be seen by a plain DOS boot diskette, so
that diskette is of little use.