Hi, Doug.
There is no Rescue Disk in WinXP - at least, not in the sense that there was
in Win9x/ME. You might be asking about one of three things:
1. The WinXP boot disk discussed in KB Article 305995, which Patti
mentioned. This disk is a floppy that contains the "system files" (NTLDR,
NTDETECT.COM and Boot.ini) normally held in the Root of the "system
partition" (almost always C:\). This boot disk does not contain WinXP
itself, but can be used to bypass the damaged or missing system files on
Drive C: and boot directly into WinXP, which might have been installed on
Drive D: or some other partition.
2. An MS-DOS boot floppy. This does not boot to WinXP at all. It simply
boots to the familiar A:> prompt of MS-DOS. This floppy contains the MS-DOS
system files io.sys and msdos.sys. When you boot with this floppy, you can
read FAT (16 or 32) volumes, but not NTFS (unless you use a third-party
utility). You can create this boot floppy easily in WinXP by right-clicking
on Drive A: (in My Computer or Windows Explorer) and then, with a blank or
expendable diskette in the drive, click Format... and choose Create an
MS-DOS startup disk.
3. The WinXP CD-ROM is bootable and contains repair tools, including the
Recovery Console, with which you can repair your WinXP installation.
But the Rescue Disk idea "as in Windows 98" is obsolete.
RC
