Just bought an OEM Version of Windows XP Home. I did not come with a start up floppy. Do I in fact need one before I install it, and how do I make? Any help would do. Thanks

you shouldn't need a boot disk, because the CD should be bootable. or you could go to the Windows XP Home Boot Disks page.

You could use a Win 98/Me startup disk if you like, just copy smartdrv.exe to the startup disk and run before running XP setup. Fallen Angel

go to my computer, right click on your floppy drive, select format, in the new window you'll be able to select make ms dos startup disk

Although you can start computer with a winME startup disk you cannot use it to run setup from WIN XP disk because it will not setup under DOS, also, if WIN XP is running on an NTFS formatted drive partition then the WinME startup disk will not help you to sort out any problems within the XP file system because DOS does not recognise NTFS, this is why it is best to always format your drives to FAT32 to avoid confusion and to be able to manipulate files etc by the use of DOS.