Making a boot disk

[Guest]

I want to make a boot disk and it says it take 6 floopys with 1.44 MB of
room. I am useing the 1.44MB disck but is tell me there not enough room. What
am i doing wrong?

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Your XP CD is bootable.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

The XP CD is bootable as Ted stated.

This takes 6 floppies....
[[The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run the Setup program
on computers that cannot use a bootable CD-ROM.

If your computer does support booting from a CD-ROM, or if network-based
installation is available, Microsoft recommends that you use those
installations methods instead.]]

How to obtain Windows XP Setup boot disks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310994

What are you trying to do?

Make an MS-DOS startup disk?

To create an MS-DOS startup disk
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...oddocs/en-us/win_create_dos_startup_disk.mspx

One of these?

Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311073

How To Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305595

How to use System files to create a boot disk to guard against being unable
to start Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314079

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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