![]() ![]() 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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