bootable disk or cd for windows XP

Check out www.bootdisk.com

You should be able to find whatever you want there.

Good luck!

There are downloads at Microsofts site to create the 6 or 7 floppy set for booting to install XP from a floppy drive.

There are diferent files for the Pro and Home versions.

If your PC supports booting from CD, all you need to do is set the boot order in BIOS settings so that the CD is the first device.

Chas

Tech Republic had an article not to long ago on how to make a bootable CD using Roxio CD creator...look in their downloads or white paper section

If your computer is capable of starting the WinXP from the cd-rom drive... then use that.

Go into your BIOS (you'll see something like "Press F2 to enter Setup" -- press whatever key it says)... and change your boot order so that the cd-rom drive comes first. Your WinXP cd should boot then.

Try this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q305595&sd=tech

just adding to chas' comment. Once you boot with a Dos type disk with cdrom support you will need to change to the I386 directory on the XP CD and run winnt. So if your Cdrom is D then: d:\I386\winnt will start the install process. It will be very slow as there is not usually support for smartdisk(or whatever its called). Best bet is to try set the options in BIOS to boot from CD as some of the others have said. Although for some reason some PCs are picky and will not boot this way(even whenthey are able too).

Jason

I have made a cd and used floopy to break open, but when i used it, it cause more problem so I'm not using them any more. Thank you for your help

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