Boot Disk
- From: "Greg Maxey" <gmaxey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:09:18 -0500
How do I create a boot disk for WindowsXP so that when the machine boots it
will load USB drivers? I need to be able to see my external USB connected
hard drive in the event I must do a restore to the operating system
following "a future" hard drive failure . When I use the option to format a
floopy disk as an MS Startup Disk, it does boot the PC with the A\: line
showing, but I can't change directories to one of the CD ROM drives or the
external drives. If I type Dir, I get a list of the files on the A:\, but
no other standard DOS commands will function.
I am not very savvy in this area, but I think I am missing "drivers"? I
need a boot disk that will boot the PC, let me start a recovery progam on a
CD Rom Drive and load drivers make the USB drive visible.
Can this be done? How? Thanks so much.
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