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Lyall Kingman
May 18th 04, 01:41 AM
Is there a way to create an emergency boot disk in XP home?

John Barnett MVP
May 18th 04, 02:41 AM
Yes. Visit my website www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net Click on the WinXP
Faq button and take a look at question 10

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Sharon F
May 18th 04, 05:41 PM
On Mon, 17 May 2004 20:15:49 -0400, Lyall Kingman wrote:

> Is there a way to create an emergency boot disk in XP home?

A few options available to you:

--The XP CD is bootable (retail CD and some OEM CDs)

--Windows Explorer can create a MS-DOS boot floppy (it's one of the Format
options)

--There's a multiple disk set for running XP setup:
Obtaining Windows XP Setup Boot Disks
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;310994

--And a single disk that can be used to boot to the operating system:
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

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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows XP Shell/User

Lil' Dave
May 18th 04, 09:42 PM
yes.
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Gordon
May 19th 04, 11:41 AM
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