Creating a Emergancy boot up Floppy

[seth M]

How in XP do you create a emergancy boot up floppy?

I recall in 98 that one goes to the ADD/REMOVE and
somewheres there was an option.

Also - does XP allow one to format a CD RW disk?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

How in XP do you create a emergancy boot up floppy?

You don't ACTUALLY need one unless your vendor has given you a Recovery CD
or uses a hidden partition for recovery - the Windows XP CD is bootable.

 

[Leviathan]

A good point has been made to booting with the cd
how-ever if you have an OEM version of XP (xp came with
your pc) the booting of the CD is no huge help

Open Explorer

put a disk in the A: dirve

Right click drivev A:

click on format from the menu

click in the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk"

click on start

note: this is very very basic...

I have downloaded a small util that creats a win 98 bood
disk. I just use this util when ever needed. Saves
booting win98 just to make a bootable floppy

 

[seth]

Gordon-

So if I had a problem, just pop in the XP CD? Or do I
need to create a CD just for ER boot ups?
If so how/where do I go to create such a bootable CD?

The previous person mentioned using the 98 boot up
(floppy) disk. I threw out my disk when I
Upgraded to XP, should I have kept that floppy?

Thanks,

Seth

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Gordon-

So if I had a problem, just pop in the XP CD?

If it's a "proper" Windows XP CD (ie not a Recovery CD supplied by your
vendor), yes. You'l have to set the BIOS to boot from the CD Rom drive first
though...

Or do I

 

[Patrick]

How in XP do you create a emergancy boot up floppy?

I recall in 98 that one goes to the ADD/REMOVE and
somewheres there was an option.

Also - does XP allow one to format a CD RW disk?

Thanks in advance.

Have a look at link below (part way down page);
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm