Creating a Emergency bootable Floppy

[Seth M]

Does XP Home allow one to create a Emergency boot up
Floppy in case the system crashes - much like in 982nd?

I was told that XP allows for boot up with THE CD (I
assume the installation disk). Is this true?
What if one can't and a floppy is the only option.

I do not have a problem w/the system, but one never knows
when a problem arises.

 

[Chris Lanier]

Yes, the Windows XP CD-ROm provide all tools that you should need. And XP
doesnt allow you to make an emergency Boot Floppy as Windows 2K and others
would.

 

[Ken Blake]

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Does XP Home allow one to create a Emergency boot up
Floppy in case the system crashes - much like in 982nd?

I was told that XP allows for boot up with THE CD (I
assume the installation disk). Is this true?

Yes. If you have a Windows XP installation CD, it's bootable, and
that's your emergency startup disk.

What if one can't and a floppy is the only option.

You can download diskettes here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=&freetext=boot+disk&DisplayLang=en

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

You can also make a boot floppy that can get around some boot issues without
having to use the CDROM.

Format a floppy in GUI mode, dont quick format it.

Copy NTLDR, boot.ini and ntdetect.com to that floppy and it will boot a
machine on its own depending on the nature of the problem.

 

[GregW]

If you duplicate the Windows XP installation CD using a CD burner so as to
have a back up copy, will the duplicate boot?

 

[NobodyMan]

If you duplicate the Windows XP installation CD using a CD burner so as to
have a back up copy, will the duplicate boot?

It depends on how you copy it. If your rip all the files/folders from
the CD to the HD, then burn it back onto CD, it probably won't work
and almost certainly won't boot.

If, however, you create an image of the CD to the HD, then use the
mastering software to write the image back to CD, that will work, and
will boot. Images are exact sector by sector copies (including boot
information and volume titles) whereas straight rips aren't.