roxy said:
i have made a floppy reboot disk nothin
i have dowloaded the windows xp ...nothing
i don't know what to do
someone please help me
I'm not sure what you did. But you can make a boot floppy as follows:
1) Format the disk on a machine running the operating system (WinXP) you
are trying to boot using a friend's machine. Do not second guess this
step. It must be done.
2) On the friend's machine copy ntldr to the floppy. Do the same with
boot.ini and ntdetect.com . They are in the root directory of the boot
drive. Before copying you may have to make these files visible by
right-click and clear the hidden attribute.
3) copy a simple text editor to the floppy. Norton Edit is the one I
use but any stand-alone editor will do. You can use this to make
changes to boot.ini .
4) Try restarting your machine with the floppy inserted.
5) Assuming it fails, edit boot.ini on the floppy and make it say where
the operating system is. Remember that partitions are numbered starting
with "1". Everything else starts at "0".
Good luck.