Re: Help PLEASE Boot Disk for XP

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:20:53 -0800

Which part did I miss ?? The most important !!
My bad...I didn't take the time to read your response
properly. I'm burning the disks now. Thanks for your
help...this is valuble support and I'll be sure to read
the response with more attention if I need it again...

>-----Original Message-----
>Chuck wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to make a boot disk in XP that
will
>> allow to activate the CDROM drives and allow to format
>> the C drive (like the old DOS FDisk)
>> My HDD is partitioned and the C drive (with system
files)
>> is corrupt. HDD won't boot so I want to boot off a disk
>> and format the C partition without loosing the D
partition
>> then reinstall windows. I would do this from my other
>> computer.
>>
>> On the defective computer...
>> I put in my windows CD but it won't boot from CD even
>> after I changed all my bootable drives to CDROM in the
>> CMOS setup ...
>
>> Get the Windows XP Boot Diskettes and use them. There
are still
>> systems out there that won't work easily without this
option - yours
>> sounds like one of them:
>>
>> XP Home Edition:
>>
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
displaylang=en&FamilyID=E8FE6868-6E4F-471C-B455-
BD5AFEE126D8
>>
>> XP Professional Edition:
>>
>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=55820edb-5039-4955-bcb7-
4fed408ea73f&displaylang=en
>>
>> You'll need 6 blank floppy diskettes.
>
>Chuck wrote:
>> Are you saying I have to go out and purchase disks.
Can't
>> XP operating system make those disks from another
>> computer.
>> Windows 98 and down used to be able to make a boot disk
>> that starts your CDROM and boots to prompt. That way I
>> could reinstall from CD.
>
>Which part did you miss?
>
>If you go to the web page appropriate for your OS
version (Home or
>Professional) from the two links I gave you, you can
download and then
>create floppy diskettes to boot up and install Windows
XP that way (you will
>still need the CD in the drive at the time.)
>
>Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by
download from Microsoft.
>The Setup boot disks are available so that you can run
Setup on computers
>that do not support a bootable CD-ROM.
>
>Future products will no longer support installation via
the setup boot
>disks. Installation of future Microsoft Operating
Systems will require the
>ability to boot from the CD or PXE boot from Network.
Setup boot disks that
>are provided for Windows XP are provided and supported
on an as is basis.
>
>Also, if you think you want to install from a single
diskette, you could go
>to:
>
>http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
>And get one/create one and then run setup manually, but
I do not recommend
>this method.
>
>--
><- Shenan ->
>--
>
>
>.
>

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