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Windows XP - Tips Section
How to create a boot disk
Posted By: Byron Hinson
Last Updated: September 4th 2003
Tip Difficulty Level: Novice

This is quite a simple tip, nothing too taxing even for the complete Windows novice. There is no need to worry about any formatting of your PC as you specifically select the floppy drive when you begin.

How This Tip Works

  1. Go into MY COMPUTER
  2. Have a floppy disk in your drive and then RIGHT click on on the floppy drive and then click on FORMAT
  3. You will be greeted with a number of options. The one you need to select is "Create an MS-DOS start up disk".
  4. Click Start

Boot Disk

Note: This requires up to 5 floppy disks and DOES NOT contain ANY CD-ROM drivers to boot from. A proper CD-ROM boot up disk is going to be release by Microsoft after the Windows XP public release. You can however use you old Windows Me start-up disk if you would prefer, as long as you have not upgraded to an NTFS drive.

 

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