Boot up disk

[Ant]

I recently bought I system with Microsoft XP Professional
pre-installed. I already had to take it to a data
specialist to recover my files. I know if I had a copy
of a legit XP version I could restore the system myself

So my question is that I saw something on the windows
site that would make you have a boot disk with 6 floppy
disk. When windows won't boot, could I use this disk to
make my system boot, or will these disk erase my hard
drive?

Please let me know

ant

 

[Ken Simmons [MSFT]]

Hi Ant,

The primary purpose of the floppy disks you are referring to is to boot in
order to have access to the Winodws XP CD. They are not boot disks in the
MS-DOS way of thinking of a boot disk.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Thos floppies will not erase the data but they are of limited use
without the CD.
Where is the CD?
Or are you implying that the computer has a pirated version of Windows
XP?
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/invalpk.htm

 

[Guest]

I don't seem to be able to boot from cd on my machine - how do I get those boot disks?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

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

Check your motherboard/computer BIOS manual or contact the
manufacturer for BIOS setup information.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html

I don't seem to be able to boot from cd on my machine - how do I get

those boot disks?