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Those 6 XP start disks:burn to CD?
Name: jonmf76 Date: October 17, 2005 at 08:16:11 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
I am trying to get XP startup disks for my Toshiba. The "6 startup floppies" download is available from Microsoft. Question is, can I burn them to CD instead of floppies?
Name: Sabertooth Date: October 17, 2005 at 08:18:42 Pacific
Reply:
Why did you download them to begin with if you can boot from a CD ?
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Response Number 2
Name: plainandsimple Date: October 17, 2005 at 10:25:01 Pacific
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M$ state the Boot Diskette Set are offered for customers unable to boot from CD. So NO it is not really a feasible proposition.
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Response Number 3
Name: jonmf76 Date: October 17, 2005 at 10:35:12 Pacific
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Hi,
I didn't download them yet. I am trying to get my startup in XP problem resolved and am searchign for ways to do so. I heard about the 6 startup floppies, but only have a CD drive on my laptop...So am trying to come up with a solution to not having a startup disk. Any suggestions?
Jon
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Response Number 4
Name: plainandsimple Date: October 17, 2005 at 12:59:17 Pacific
Name: jefro Date: October 17, 2005 at 14:40:45 Pacific
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OK, I'll ask. Why would you get floppies to copy to a CD? The floppies contain some or all of what is on the MS CD anyway.
Other ideas are some things like ultimate boot disk or even barts pe to get to a system if you don't have luck and the tricks to use the recovery console from CD or if you installed the recovery to the hard drive.
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Response Number 6
Name: domass Date: October 17, 2005 at 22:02:54 Pacific
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Are you having problems starting up a system that already has XP installed or are you trying to install XP and can't get it to boot to the cd drive?
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Response Number 7
Name: terii Date: October 18, 2005 at 06:31:14 Pacific
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There is a notation on the MS document relating to this topic that these startup disks are being phased out. Looking at your computer I guess it would not be hard to guess why. As stated above get BartPE to reslove your boot problem.
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