Re: Boot Disk

Greg Maxey wrote:

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. 

Check in the BIOS to enable legacy USB support.

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