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creating a floppy boot disc for XP?

I'm trying to make a floppy boot disc for my win XP but i'm not havng any luck.

I format the floppy disc and then click on 'create a boot disc' Everything seems to go fine but when I reboot the pc it says there's a file missing on the disc and it can't boot into dos from it.

Can anyone please help?

01-17-2004 02:31 PM
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the create boot disk does only copy boot files .... you can also do this by sayin "sys c: a:"
you need all the rest of the bootdisk ... just take a boot disk or dl any and copy the file on it ....
there is also a bootdisk set for XP by MS (5disks)



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from Microsoft Support (http://support.microsoft.com) you can download XP boot disc, and I belive the downloaded exe will create boot discket as it copies the extracted files to your discket.


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Thanks for the info, got it sorted Big Grin

01-17-2004 11:50 PM
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Try this also - great site...

A windows 98 Boot disk is still one of best to always have laying around...

Anyway try this site http://www.bootdisk.com it has plenty of bootdisks you can download in zip form and just unzip onto floppy

When I don't have a boot disk laying around this site will get you going real quick...


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01-19-2004 12:25 AM
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