XP boot disk?

[trs80]

I had XP corruption somehow and the PC would not boot.
I took it to technicians who did a XP repair and said that you cannot make a
boot disk for XP.

Is that true?. is there a way to boot the PC into XP from a CD disk?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

I had XP corruption somehow and the PC would not boot.
I took it to technicians who did a XP repair and said that you cannot make
a
boot disk for XP.

Is that true?. is there a way to boot the PC into XP from a CD disk?

You can boot from the WinXP CD. You have to set your boot order in BIOS to
try the CD first and then watch the screen, usually near the bottom.

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[Guest]

that sounds unusual, here is official documentation to show them to proove
there is such a thing:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310994

http://www.bootdisk.com/

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=xp+"boot+disk"&btnG=Search&meta=

Hope that helps

Cheers

Quintin

 

[John]

I had XP corruption somehow and the PC would not boot.
I took it to technicians who did a XP repair and said that you cannot make a
boot disk for XP.

Is that true?. is there a way to boot the PC into XP from a CD disk?

Do you have a real XP disk rather than a manufacturer's restore disk?
If the latter they may be right but if the former they are all wet. You
can probably boot from either disk but the resulting install will be
quite a bit different.

John

 

[Rich Barry]

If WinXP is not booting Normally and you can't get into Safe Mode by
Tapping F8 repeatedly on Startup then there's
no WinXP Bootdisk that will get you back into Windows. If you have a
WinXP CD then you can boot with that and do
a Repair Install or get to the Recovery Console and from there
attempt a fix. But first you have to go into the Bios and
set the cdrom drive as first boot device.

 

[wayfarrer]

The tech's statement is only partially true. One can create boot disk for
Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an
Intel-processor-based computer. This has limited use. See this article for
details:

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

Another approach would be to create a special tool like the BartPE disc.

Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/

This will bootup and run Win XP from the CD itself. The system's C drive could
then be accessed just like any other drive, except that its registry would not
be in memory. This is a special tool that should only be used by users who are
technically competent since it bypasses all of the security features built into
the Windows NT systems.

 

[trs80]

I did that. Its a legal upgrade version....is that bootable? I tried , it
looked at the Cd and it didnt work

 

[trs80]

I tried that and it didnt work. No menu or nothing. Its a upgrade version
for XP. Will it still do boot/repair from it?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

It should be.
If after setting the BIOS appropriately and you still do not boot to CD,
there is most likely something wrong with the CD or drive.

 

[Stephen]

No. You do not start a window-less / command-prompt only version of
WindowsXP with that CD-ROM disc. Instead, you can land yourself at the
Recovery Console command prompt with that disc.

In other words, you should be able to use the WinXP upgrd CD-ROM disc to
boot to the Recovery Console [ read up on using the Recovery Console and
what it can and cannot do ]. This is not *really* booting to Windows XP,
rather a limited Recovery Console that enables some repair operations,
setting the start or not-start of services etc. You can also use it to
partition and format harddrive partitions both in FAT32 and NTFS.

Note though, a bootdisk created with Windows98 can boot your computer,
operate the CD-ROM drive, the A: drive and view all FAT32 formatted
harddrive partitions. The fdisk utility lets you partition and the format
utility enables you to format in FAT and FAT32. It will not be able to read
NTFS formatted partitions on its own. There are third party uitilites that
enable the read and writing NTFS partitions from DOS. And, again, it is not
booting into a window-less/command-promt version of Windows XP - rather, it
is booting into MS-DOS.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Yes, the XP CD should be your boot disk - change the bios to make your CD
drive the first boot device in the list, put the XP CD in, restart the
system, go from there to reinstall Windows (or do the repair install, make
sure you *don't* install a second copy of Windows.

 

[trs80]

xp home CD does not. The pro does and the cds supplied with Dell do. But
the MS XP Home version does not

 

[Malke]

Not True

Just to elaborate on Mr. Goh's comment, all XP cd's are bootable
regardless of version. I would find a different computer technician.

Malke

 

[trs80]

IT BE THE FACTS....DWEEBOID. IF YOU WENT OUT OF THE HOUSE ONCE IN A WHILE
YOUD FIGURE IT OUT

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Windows XP Home just like Pro CDs are bootable, that is the fact.
If your Windows XP Home CD is not bootable your CD has a problem.
Mine is bootable, another fact.

 

[Plato]

Windows XP Home just like Pro CDs are bootable, that is the fact.
If your Windows XP Home CD is not bootable your CD has a problem.

Or the pc has a problem. Thus the need for bootdisk sets, even for XP.
Heck, the MS URL for their XP 1.44 bootdisk sets is now in the top 10 in
google.