boot disk for XP?

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I had XP corruption somehow and the PC would not boot.
I took it to technicians who did a XP repair and said that you can make a
boot disk for XP.

Is that true. is there a way to boot the PC into XP from a CD disk?
 
trs80 said:
I had XP corruption somehow and the PC would not boot. I took it
to technicians who did a XP repair and said that you can make a
boot disk for XP. Is that true. is there a way to boot the PC
into XP from a CD disk?
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I don't know about boot disks anymore. In my opinion, you need a
disk manager. Formerly, that was PartitionMagic for me. Now,
apparently that will be Partitioned Manager. A disk manager is the
way for an active user to handle Windows.

Good luck.
 
yes of course...it was set like that. Like I said. I read the cd but
would not boot from it
 
trs80 said:
Is that true. is there a way to boot the PC into XP from a CD disk?
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Simply put the XP installation CD into the machine and select Boot from CD
at the menu. Make sure your BIOS is set to boot from CD before HD.
 
You should get a menu on booting the CD that gives the option to
install/upgrade or boot from CD.
 
Yes. Just use the XP Installation Disk. It will boot you in to Windows.
Just remember that for this to work, you first have to go into your BIOS and
set your computer's Boot Order to boot from the CD-Rom first, instead of the
harddrive.
 
Perhaps I misunderstand, but the statement appears to be false.

My only copy of XP (Home) is a retail upgrade version (for the USA).

The CD is bootable. As far as I know, its only difference from the full
retail version is that I have to produce "qualifying media" to get it to do
a clean install (rather than an upgrade).

I haven't used the original CD recently, as I have prepared a version with
SP2 "slipstreamed" onto it. (The copy is also bootable.)

In the event that the OP's PC can't boot from its CD drive, it is possible
to download a utility that creates a set of six floppies to begin the XP
installation by booting from the floppy drive:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310994

I've never used the boot floppies, though, as the oldest hardware I've
installed XP on supported booting from a CD drive.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
 
pudj said:
An upgrade version of xp will not self boot you need full version.
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That is not true. Retail, OEM and Upgrade versions are all bootable.

trs80 said that he has the CD-Rom set first in the boot priority. Did you
"Hit any key to boot from the CD" when prompted? Is yous CD a regular IDE
model or is it SCSI or external, perhaps?
 
its ide and its set to boot from the cd
the XP CD is a upgrade for Home version and it wont boot, but the tech was
able to boot with a full up version and get into the repair menu. So i
believe it when its said it wont boot from upgrade version. I guess I will
need to make a boot cd from one of the options mentioned.
 
Is that true. is there a way to boot the PC into XP from a CD disk?
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No. You can make a cd boot disk, but it does not boot
into WinXP .. just into its own OS. There is a program
you can buy which will create a very limited WinXP
OS on a cd boot disk, but I find it to be useless for
anything much.

johns
 
johns said:
No. You can make a cd boot disk, but it does not boot
into WinXP .. just into its own OS. There is a program
you can buy which will create a very limited WinXP
OS on a cd boot disk, but I find it to be useless for
anything much.

johns
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Just go to bootdisk.com and download the XP boot disks for XP Home. The
download will make six floppies, so make sure you have that many handy.


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