Pooh on taking suggestions!

[Michael P Gabriel]

Hi!

Recently on this NG, someone included a URL link to where a program
would be found, where WIN XP Emergency Startup Floppies could be
made. Knowing how valuable my WIN 98 SE Emergency Disks are...I
downloaded the program.

I made the six floppies....what a job!! If any one of them has a
problem with the floppy itself, you just can't go back...you have to
find a good floppy disk and start all over! Boooh! So I then decided
to test them: After loading the sixth and final floppy, I got an
error meaasge on a blue and white screen that screamed death and
destruction. I could do little but close down by turning the system
off. Was I ever pissed!!

When I restarted everything went fine!! Thank Goodness! So if you
haven't yet tried making those six Emergency Disks..think twice. OR,
Try it and figure out why the blue screen and please let me know. I
wasted over an hour of hadr time working with those crummy
floppies...new ones that were defective.

Mike
Picture Rocks, AZ

 

[Jim Macklin]

If your computer has a working CD or DVD drive and you have
an XP CD you don't need floppies. And any computer that
will run XP should have a CD.


| Hi!
|
| Recently on this NG, someone included a URL link to where
a program
| would be found, where WIN XP Emergency Startup Floppies
could be
| made. Knowing how valuable my WIN 98 SE Emergency Disks
are...I
| downloaded the program.
|
| I made the six floppies....what a job!! If any one of
them has a
| problem with the floppy itself, you just can't go
back...you have to
| find a good floppy disk and start all over! Boooh! So I
then decided
| to test them: After loading the sixth and final floppy, I
got an
| error meaasge on a blue and white screen that screamed
death and
| destruction. I could do little but close down by turning
the system
| off. Was I ever pissed!!
|
| When I restarted everything went fine!! Thank Goodness! So
if you
| haven't yet tried making those six Emergency Disks..think
twice. OR,
| Try it and figure out why the blue screen and please let
me know. I
| wasted over an hour of hadr time working with those crummy
| floppies...new ones that were defective.
|
| Mike
| Picture Rocks, AZ

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

You can always boot from your WinXP CD, you know...

 

[Guest]

If Jim Macklin's suggestion doesn't work, try this
Bootable C

A bootable CD-Rom is a CD from which you boot the PC. This means putting the CD in your CD-Rom drive and power-on or reboot your system. The PC will load a boot image from the CD-Rom and control is given to this boot image. Information here: Creating bootable CD-Roms for PC

305595 - HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows X
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q305595

 

[Alex Nichol]

Recently on this NG, someone included a URL link to where a program
would be found, where WIN XP Emergency Startup Floppies could be
made. Knowing how valuable my WIN 98 SE Emergency Disks are...I
downloaded the program.

Those are for use should you be unable to boot a CD, or where you have
not got a CD (though if you do not have one what you can then do is
restricted). For any modern machine capable of doing that, you boot the
XP CD