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make boot disk...how?
Name: j3r3my Date: November 10, 2001 at 15:27:16 Pacific
Comment:
hey there,... How do I make a bood disk from windows xp, I already have a bood disk, but I made it from win 98, can I use that?
Name: Kurt Date: November 10, 2001 at 16:28:41 Pacific
Reply:
for windowsxp you will have to download the boot disk from the following url:
Home edition, paste this link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/WinXPHome/Install/310994/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/WinXP_EN_HOM_BF.EXE
Pro edition, paste this link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/310994/WIN98MeXP/EN-US/WinXP_EN_PRO_BF.EXE
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Response Number 2
Name: Ger Date: November 10, 2001 at 21:02:57 Pacific
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I read a tip somewhere that you can right click on your floppy drive in My Computer to find an option to create a startup disk, but I'm not using XP yet so I can't check to be sure.
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Response Number 3
Name: Rupster72 Date: November 10, 2001 at 21:14:41 Pacific
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Right Clicking on the A drive doesn't work, & those links are for making several install disks, not a single bootable floppy like in windows 98. I'm not sure if it is possible to get or make a true XP bootable floppy, but the windows 98 boot disk will still bring you to a dos prompt.
Hope this helps.
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Response Number 4
Name: x Date: November 10, 2001 at 22:12:57 Pacific
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Win 98 bootdisc will not work!! You need to make 6x bootdiscs. Follow Kurt's links.
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Response Number 5
Name: j3r3my Date: November 11, 2001 at 08:16:05 Pacific
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Kurt, after i dl from microsoft, do i have tu burin it out to the disc. coz the size of the file is 4.20 MB
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Response Number 6
Name: Ger Date: November 11, 2001 at 19:47:52 Pacific
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I just found this at Microsoft support. To create an MS-DOS startup disk in Windows XP, insert a formatted floppy disk into the floppy disk drive, double-click My Computer, right-click your floppy disk drive, click Format, click Create an MS-DOS startup disk, and then click Start.
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Response Number 7
Name: insane Date: November 24, 2001 at 12:17:07 Pacific
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there is no creat ms-dos startup disk option there
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Response Number 8
Name: Trunkz Date: December 15, 2001 at 11:13:39 Pacific
Reply:
yeah there is....:) i made a startup disk...Ger was right.
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