Xp boot disk question!!??

[Mike Couch]

Hi!!


I Just recently bought windows home xp full version, and I was wondering if
its possible to create, and where is the menu wizard for a boot disk?

I plan on reformatting my hard drive and this question came up!!??

A boot disk will be needed to access my cdrom drive when I'm taken to dos
mode since there will be no OS when I reformat!!

The only thing I can think of doing is using my win 98 upgrade boot disk to
give me access to my cdrom, unless home xp can create one for me!!

Thanks for any help!!

Mike C.

 

[hustedj]

just boot up to the CD! That is the reason it doesn't come with one.

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Hi!!


I Just recently bought windows home xp full version, and I was
wondering if its possible to create, and where is the menu wizard for
a boot disk?

I plan on reformatting my hard drive and this question came up!!??

A boot disk will be needed to access my cdrom drive when I'm taken to
dos mode since there will be no OS when I reformat!!

The only thing I can think of doing is using my win 98 upgrade boot
disk to give me access to my cdrom, unless home xp can create one for
me!!

Thanks for any help!!

Mike C.

Mike

The Windows XP CD is bootable, you don't need a boot disk. Go into the BIOS
settings and select the CD drive as the first drive accessed.

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Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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[XS11E]

The Windows XP CD is bootable, you don't need a boot disk. Go into
the BIOS settings and select the CD drive as the first drive
accessed.

I suppose it's possible that some folks are still running older BIOSs
that don't allow booting from the CD?

In which case, a boot disk may be downloaded from
http://www.bootdisk.com

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

If the user is using NTFS as opposed to FAT32, the bootdisk from
bootdisk.com will be useless for anything beyond deleting and creating
partitions and formatting and even those tools should not be used with XP,
at least not if they are going to, for example, reinstall XP and use NTFS as
opposed to FAT32.

 

[D.Currie]

I suppose it's possible that some folks are still running older BIOSs
that don't allow booting from the CD?

In which case, a boot disk may be downloaded from
http://www.bootdisk.com

If the bios is that old, chances are the computer wouldn't have enough guts
to run XP.

 

[XS11E]

If the bios is that old, chances are the computer wouldn't have
enough guts to run XP.

Possibly but I've been VERY surprised at what boxes will run Win2k and
XP, some way below the minimun requirements. They run very slowly, of
course, I doubt either of us would consider the performance acceptable,
but they do run!

The next problem is the CD that won't boot for whatever reason (mine
got damaged by a bad CD ROM). I found years back with Win2k I could
boot on a DOS disk with CD ROM support, fdisk, format (if needed, or
let Win2k do it for me) and then change directory to the i386 folder on
the CD, type WINNT.EXE (same directory and file name for XP) and watch
it install.