Re: No floppy drive - In desperate need of an emergency boot disk

[Guest tom]

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 \(MVP\)]

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]

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 \(MVP\)]

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

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> 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!