Guest tom Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk how can i make the boot cd ?? tried microsoft download, but it is for floopy startup only. thyanks "Ron Bogart" wrote: > In news:D523CAB6-1A7A-4C8C-A20E-61394CF8458E@microsoft.com, > No floppy drive-Need start-up/boot disk <No floppy drive-Need start-up/boot > disk@discussions.microsoft.com> read some of the previous post and somehow > came up with this: > > I do not have a Windows XP CD - it came bundled with my Sony > > software....Everything I have seen regarding the creation of an > > emergency start-up/boot disk for XP has needed either a floppy drive > > or the original Windows CD. Does anyone know of a solution - I will > > be forever greatful! Thanksm Renae > > Do you have access to a CD Recorder? You can create a Boot CD with all the > functions of a Boot Floppy and do as you are asking. > > -- > Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬ > Associate Expert > Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > "Life is what happens while we are making other plans." > > >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk You can get a CD boot image from http://www.bootdisk.com. "tom" <tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3CA05CB7-48D5-4ABC-8C0A-612FEFCBEC73@microsoft.com... > how can i make the boot cd ?? tried microsoft download, but it is for > floopy > startup only. thyanks > > "Ron Bogart" wrote: > >> In news:D523CAB6-1A7A-4C8C-A20E-61394CF8458E@microsoft.com, >> No floppy drive-Need start-up/boot disk <No floppy drive-Need >> start-up/boot >> disk@discussions.microsoft.com> read some of the previous post and >> somehow >> came up with this: >> > I do not have a Windows XP CD - it came bundled with my Sony >> > software....Everything I have seen regarding the creation of an >> > emergency start-up/boot disk for XP has needed either a floppy drive >> > or the original Windows CD. Does anyone know of a solution - I will >> > be forever greatful! Thanksm Renae >> >> Do you have access to a CD Recorder? You can create a Boot CD with all >> the >> functions of a Boot Floppy and do as you are asking. >> >> -- >> Ron Bogart {} ô¿ô¬ >> Associate Expert >> Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone >> "Life is what happens while we are making other plans." >> >> >>
Guest Zilbandy Posted June 13, 2008 Posted June 13, 2008 Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:44:18 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote: >You can get a CD boot image from http://www.bootdisk.com. Ha! Bootdisk.com is charging now. Four dollars for access to the files. -- Zilbandy
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted June 14, 2008 Posted June 14, 2008 Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk "Zilbandy" <zilbandy@comcastREMOVETHIS.net> wrote in message news:hqm354d3on1vp3hainv4lmvmsku8iq9o3f@4ax.com... > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:44:18 +0200, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" > <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote: > >>You can get a CD boot image from http://www.bootdisk.com. > > Ha! Bootdisk.com is charging now. Four dollars for access to the > files. > > -- > Zilbandy On this page http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm I see a header in very big letters that says "Free boot disk". And even if it cost you $4.00 - it would be peanuts!
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