I know this is a really simple thing to do but I just can't believe I forgot what I was suppose to do to make one lol.

Since I'm upgrading soon, I need to format my computer. But my floppy disks don't work with my floppy drive. I don't know why but I think it's because my system is a NTFS format and the floppies were formatted for my old FAT32 system. I can't seem to format them to NTFS though.

So my question is, how do I create a Windows XP Pro bood disk with a CD-ROM?

Someone? Anyone?

You use the installation disk.

Peace
Ev

there is site on the web that lets you download the bootdik for all winOS

try bootxp.com.....or just google it


EDIT: but really, all modern mobo should allow u to set the cdrom as the boot drive and use the installation cd

I know. I can boot up my installation disk. Hm... Guess I'll just use that instead then. Thanx anyways guys.

I use Bart's way to create the bootable cd's ...

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

and ...

http://unattended.msfn.org/

will show you how to make it an unattended installation complete with patches, support for extra msd's (no more pressing F6 at the start of setup then having to find the floppy with your raid/sata drivers), your own drivers and maybe one or two apps. Beats the hell out of anything else.

There are boot disks (7) from microsoft.com lemme find em....

Here

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=55820...laylang=en

Peace
Ev

Try http://www.bootdisk.com You can make bootdisks for most OS's.

You go in ur bios and make cd rom the first boot drive, thats what i do at least

Hello Kitty Muncher
Good lad..you hit the nail right on the head

I was sitting here, and waiting for someone to tell them, to go into the bios and make O/s CD the first boot,

I thought everybody knew that

Regards

Victor

Sometimes people can't boot from a CD for one reason or other. That's why MS has floppy discs for booting. The first thing you have to determine is if your XP Pro has SP1 or not. The boot disks won't work otherwise. If it's XP Pro without SP1 use these.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=55820...laylang=en

If you have XP Pro SP1 then use these

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83f53...laylang=en

Instructions on how to make a boot disk set is found here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311073

If your going to install XP then you don't need a boot disk.

I only use a boot disk when I'm not performing a clean install, which I advise against.

Once your hard drive is formatted and partitioned and ready for a OS install all you need do is boot to the cd-rom and perform your install from there.

If you have a current hard drive, the program that is provided is excellent and makes the process so much easier nowadays.

Why and when you need startup disks.

The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP startup disk will automatically load the correct drivers to gain access to the CD-ROM drive and start a new installation of Setup.