How can you make boot disks or obtain boot disks for fresh installations of windows xp home edition OEM Version without having to use 6 Floppy disks.

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If you do not have your OEM disk then the manufacturer most likely sells them.

You can boot from Windows XP Home CD But if your CD ROM Drive does'nt won't work you need a Bootable Floppy Disk and that's what i need really.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

Thanks for that link will check that out abit later on.

I had a look at the site that you recommended to me and you still have to use 6 floppy disks. How can i put all the data from all the 6 disks onto one floppy disk.

You cannot. What is the problem with using 6?

"You can boot from Windows XP Home CD But if your CD ROM Drive does'nt won't work you need a Bootable Floppy Disk and that's what i need really."

Are you saying your CDROM doesn't work, or that it just doesn't work at machine boot as a boot device?

If it works, check the boot device sequence in the machines bios. Set it as the first boot device.(Technically, if it's one of the three or four devices in the boot order, it should work as long as the machine doesn't find any boot files on any other devices before it gets to the CDROM.)

My CD ROM Drive does work but when i go and install a new installation of XP it won't boot up into the settings part of xp where you create new partitions and have the options to repair or create a fresh installation.

I think that the drivers are missing of my CD ROM Windows XP Installation Disk.

I don't really want to use 6 floppy disks because thats just a waste of 6 floppy disks rather than using 1 like a mate of mine has got.

This may be what you're looking for;

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;307848


Here's a 98SE boot disk* in case you need one.


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The above bootdisk image file is a self extracting file and has to be executed (run) from a running Windows(9x) machine in order to create the actual startup diskette on one of your floppy disks. (This image file produces the same bootdisk which 98SE creates.) This downloaded image file will format the floppy disk to ensure its integrity, write the files to the disk, then verify the file write, so it'll take a minute or three to create the bootdisk.

Ensure the floppy drive is set as the first boot device in the bios. http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/library/23.html

NOTE: When you boot a machine with this boot floppy, it creates a RAMDRIVE in system memory to contain DOS system tools/drivers. Thus it will move your "normal" CDROM device/drive letter "up" one level. (If your CDROM is normally E: it will be F: when booting with this bootdisk.)

The path to the found CDROM will be set with the bootfiles, so entering A:\>f:\setup is the same as entering A:\>setup at the A:\> prompt. There is no need to include the cdrom drive letter. The CDROM device letter will be assigned near the end of the floppy boot process, right after MSCDEX is loaded.