When you buy a new PC, you should get a Windows XP recovery CD to go with it.īoot all by itself - when you stick the CD in your CD drive and restart, your computer can boot from that CD and allow you to install or repair Windows XP.
This technique shows you how to make your machine start, no matter what ails Windows. If you prepare for the problem now, you can save yourself hours or days of hassle, down the road. No, you can’t boot from a floppy disk and then run Windows from the CD.Įvery Windows user needs a way to get his machine running if the copy of Windows on the hard drive goes bananas. The idea: If your PC won’t boot from CD (perhaps the computer refuses to make the CD drive the “boot drive”), you can still boot from a floppy disk - but only if you immediately install or repair Windows. Microsoft now allows you to download a six-disk collection that really does let you boot from your floppy drive - but only so you can install Windows XP from CD, nothing more. No, you couldn’t do anything much when you booted.
There was a little check box in the disk formatting dialog box that claimed it would create a boot disk - but the generated floppy amounted to little more than a cruel joke. If your PC wouldn’t boot from the CD, you couldn’t even install Windows. “Let them eat cake!” came the cry from the Windows executives. When Microsoft released Windows XP, there was no provision whatsoever for a boot disk. Heck, those older versions of Windows stepped you through a complicated procedure for creating a two-disk set that could help you cure whatever ailed Windows. If you grew up in the Windows Me/98 world, you know the importance of having an emergency boot disk - a floppy disk that you could stick in the drive, click Restart, and bring your computer back to life. Making an old DOS startup disk work on your system Demanding a Windows XP CD when you buy a new computerĬreating a Windows XP startup disk that bypasses key system files
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