#Make a windows xp boot disk cd how to#

Now when your system will boot up, it will automatically enter in recovery mode. pointed out previously, Windows XP will make a boot floppy for you however, the boot floppy that it makes is an MS-DOS disk. soon after your computer displays the system information. Several people have asked about making boot disks recently. If it is set then go to Step 4 else, press F2 key while booting i.e. First and foremost, ensure your system BIOS is setup to boot from the CD-ROM drive. Shutdown your Windows and turn it on again. In order to accomplish the Windows XP repair with bootable disc, just follow the below mentioned steps: 1.

Insert the floppy-disk or CD in desired computer. Remove the floppy-disk/CD and now you have to use it on computer you want to make recovery for. Is there not a way that I can extract the data from my Hard drive, I tried but it said that I could not save it to the C: drive, does this mean I need a 2nd Hard Drive, if so then I can always borrow my other computer's C: drive to do the deed.ДЄll I want to do is make a bootable disk to run gparted to see if we can save a friends Hard drive that Nero Express Essentials squeezed down from 20 Gig to 7 Gig when he tried to copy his old C drive to a bigger one, but ended up with 2 small drives instead. Once you are done with download and save process. I have downloaded ImgBurn but to make the CD bootable I have to extract the boot data from the 'Installation Disk' which I don't have. The problem is I have a Dell Optiplex GX270, that I bought from 123 Compute with a stripped down version of Windows XP Pro & of course it came without the XP installation disks.

#Make a windows xp boot disk cd how to#

I've searched in Google, but all I seem to find is how to make a CD to reinstall XP. Making a rescue boot disk using Acronis Disk Director 12 a simple process. I am at the end of my string here & am suffering from information overload.