Boot disk for XP with NTFS

[Guest]

I am trying to create a boot disk for my recently installed XP operating system. Support microsft. com instructs one to create a floppy and copy Boot.ini, NTDLR and Ntdetect.com. After much searching to find these files and copying them
I learned, from this same website, that this disk won't work with NTFS which is what I have

Similalry, I created emergency disks through Norton System Works and then found out that being DOS based utilitie
it won't support my NTFS formatted system

I then was about to make disks for Automated Sytem Recovery but found out, same website, that ASR is not supported in Windows XP Home Edition

Anyone out there know a way I can create a boot disk (or any other means) to guard against being unable to start Windows XP

Any help would be gretalt appreciated

 

[Guest]

I have used this product in the past on Win2k machines and it worked fine. Never tried it on a WinXP machine if you ever really need to recover something from a dead/locked out machine

http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/erdcommander2002.asp?pid=erd

 

[Bob Harris]

First, your XP CDROM is bootable and hasa few repair tools on it via
somehting called the recovery console. See the following links about the
recovery console:

http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/wxprcons.htm

http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm (near bottom)

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_rec.htm

A better solution is to use "Bart's PE Builder" (free) to construct a
bootable CD with a lot of repair tools, and far fewer restrictions that the
XP CDROM. Bart's takes a while to make, but it is worth it! See the
following link for Bart's Builder:

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/index.php?p=1

At some point in the process you may need to "slip-stream" SP-1 into the
file sform the XP CDROM. If so, see the following link:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp1_cd.htm

I am trying to create a boot disk for my recently installed XP operating

system. Support microsft. com instructs one to create a floppy and copy
Boot.ini, NTDLR and Ntdetect.com. After much searching to find these files
and copying them,

I learned, from this same website, that this disk won't work with NTFS which is what I have.

Similalry, I created emergency disks through Norton System Works and then

found out that being DOS based utilities

it won't support my NTFS formatted system.

I then was about to make disks for Automated Sytem Recovery but found out,

same website, that ASR is not supported in Windows XP Home Edition.

Anyone out there know a way I can create a boot disk (or any other means)

to guard against being unable to start Windows XP.

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 15:41:03 -0700, Anonymous

I have used this product in the past on Win2k machines and it worked fine.
Never tried it on a WinXP machine if you ever really need to recover
something from a dead/locked out machine.

http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/erdcommander2002.asp?pid=erd

A lot of money for something that should come with the OS.

Try also Bart's PE builder, or learn Linux (for use as a n XP
maintenance OS, relying on 3rd-party NTFS support) or avoid using NTFS
so that a Win9x DOS mode can still be used as maintenance OS.

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