Prot
April 20th 03, 10:39 AM
You don't need to make a boot disk. The windows xp cd is
bootable, simply set your BIOS for the cd rom to be the
first boot device. It's not like win95/98 where you need
to have a floppy that has generic cd rom drivers on it
etc.
>-----Original Message-----
>HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TOCREATE AN EMERGENCY BOOT DISK
>FOR XP PRO. EXPLORER HAS AN OPTION TO MAKE A "DOS"
>BOOT DISK, BUT I NEED A "SYS.COM" COMMAND TO BRING
>MY HARD DRIVE BACK UP. THE DRIVE HAS A FULL INSTALL
>OF XP PRO WITH LOTS OF OTHER STUFF I DON'T WANT TO
>LOSE. BUT THE DRIVE IS NO LONGER "BOOTABLE" !!! I'VE
>SPENT HOURS... LOOKING IN THE MICROSOFT WEBSITE FOR
>A SOLUTION... WITH NO RESULT... HHHELP!!!
>.
>
bootable, simply set your BIOS for the cd rom to be the
first boot device. It's not like win95/98 where you need
to have a floppy that has generic cd rom drivers on it
etc.
>-----Original Message-----
>HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TOCREATE AN EMERGENCY BOOT DISK
>FOR XP PRO. EXPLORER HAS AN OPTION TO MAKE A "DOS"
>BOOT DISK, BUT I NEED A "SYS.COM" COMMAND TO BRING
>MY HARD DRIVE BACK UP. THE DRIVE HAS A FULL INSTALL
>OF XP PRO WITH LOTS OF OTHER STUFF I DON'T WANT TO
>LOSE. BUT THE DRIVE IS NO LONGER "BOOTABLE" !!! I'VE
>SPENT HOURS... LOOKING IN THE MICROSOFT WEBSITE FOR
>A SOLUTION... WITH NO RESULT... HHHELP!!!
>.
>