XP Boot Disk

[Ken]

Can someone tell me how to create a boot floppy I can use
to bring up XP system and get to C drive. Xp is corrupted
and I need to be able to get to C to save off files. If
would be great if boot disk could also enable CD ROM
support. I don't want to reinstall XP, just want to boot
start PC, save some files then reinstall operating system
from restore CD.

Thanks in advance.
KP

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If your hard drive is NTFS formatted, you'll have difficulty salvaging your
information, as a boot disk will either be DOS based, with no access to
NTFS, or will be a boot disk set, which will allow you to get into Recovery
Console, but will limit access to specific directories.

For DOS boot disks, see www.bootdisk.com for the files needed to create one.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310994
Obtaining Windows XP Setup Boot Disks

 

[Rich Barry]

Ken, check here. www.bootdisk.com You can't get to XP from Safe Mode?
Tap F8 on startup and see if you get
a Menu.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

If your hard drive is NTFS formatted, you'll have difficulty
salvaging your information, as a boot disk will either be DOS based,
with no access to NTFS, or will be a boot disk set, which will allow
you to get into Recovery Console, but will limit access to specific
directories.

Ken may want to download the free version of ntfsdos, which will
give him access to NTFS files. That should let him copy his
files.

http://www.listsoft.com/307/

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

True, if he has a FAT/FAT32 drive/partition to copy them to. Or they're
small enough to fit on a floppy