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were to make a boot disk for xp
Name: gus kaso Date: April 11, 2003 at 13:17:36 Pacific OS: xp pro CPU/Ram: 1ghz/512
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were can i make a backup disk for windows xp if anything goes wrong with it?? is this the same as a boot disk??
Name: doc Date: April 11, 2003 at 13:24:26 Pacific
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Man with xp you never need anything like a boot disk! You are talking about a real operating system here. All you need is your xp cd. You can download a bunch of floppies but they are of no more use to you than the xp cd.
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Response Number 2
Name: Stefanos Date: April 11, 2003 at 14:09:10 Pacific
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Dont listen to this guy he knows nothing....lol
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Response Number 3
Name: seat6 Date: April 11, 2003 at 14:28:56 Pacific
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You need to copy ntldr,ntdetect, and bootini to a floppy. Explore my computer/tools/folder options/view.Select show hidden files and folders, and then uncheck hide protected operating system files. Otherwise you will not find them. Then simply do a search for them and send them to floppy. Go back to folder options and reset to default when done.
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Response Number 4
Name: Chuck Date: April 11, 2003 at 16:32:57 Pacific
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HOW TO: Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Partition in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305595 -------------------- How to make a boot.ini file: Open NOTEPAD, then copy the required text from the article, then SAVE AS... name file as BOOT.INI save boot.ini onto a BLANK floppy.
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Response Number 5
Name: marmot070 Date: April 12, 2003 at 03:02:45 Pacific
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well this sounds very easy ones i tryed to install xp pro on my brothers pc and he refused to boot from cd-rom even when i reconfigured bios so i had to download (6)!booteble floppy's and after that he booted from cd-rom.
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Response Number 6
Name: horsemeeker Date: April 12, 2003 at 04:22:56 Pacific
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i thought u just right click on your floppy, select format, then under the options (i.e. quick format etc) select "startup disk". (not sure exactly as the comp. I am writing this on has ME.)
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Response Number 7
Name: terry greensill Date: April 14, 2003 at 13:53:52 Pacific
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Go to this website to download a boot disk creator for XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q310994
Summary: Is there a boot disk for XP? As I'm unable to boot by CDROM (read on if you want to know why I want one) I recently ran into a problem, where comdl32.dll was corrupt and xp would not start in any mod...
Summary: I know how to make a boot disk in 98 thru the add/remove programs, but now I have XP and there isn't a "Startup Disk" tab in the add and remove programs anymore. I want to make a boot disk and put "F...
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