anybody know how to make a boot disk for windows xp?

[jbmagic]

anybody know how to make a boot disk for windows xp so it will recognize my harddrives and cd rom?

thanks

[duckman]

Originally Posted by jbmagic

anybody know how to make a boot disk for windows xp so it will recognize my harddrives and cd rom?

thanks

I'll talk with my brother tonight. He'll know how.

[Raiders Army]

Can't you go into your bios and make it recognize it? Like hit F1 or F2 when you're booting up or something and that will kick it into your bios. I haven't done it in a long time, so I can't remember which F? key it is.

[gstelmack]

Typing "windows xp boot disk" into Google turned up some promising hits on the first page, including a couple of Microsoft support links and one for a site with a whole bunch for download.

[Antmeister]

Originally Posted by Raiders Army

Can't you go into your bios and make it recognize it? Like hit F1 or F2 when you're booting up or something and that will kick it into your bios. I haven't done it in a long time, so I can't remember which F? key it is.

You're on the right track. The reason why you don't see an option for creating boot disks anymore is because you can do it from the Windows XP CD-ROM. By pressing F2, you can make the BIOS read the CD-ROM first and then it will go through the same procedure as it would a boot disk.

Now if you have a computer such as a Dell or Gateway, they may have a portion of the hard drive already setup for you to just access this through another function key. So if thats the case, see what it say at startup to access that portion of your drive.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by Antmeister71

You're on the right track. The reason why you don't see an option for creating boot disks anymore is because you can do it from the Windows XP CD-ROM. By pressing F2, you can make the BIOS read the CD-ROM first and then it will go through the same procedure as it would a boot disk.

Now if you have a computer such as a Dell or Gateway, they may have a portion of the hard drive already setup for you to just access this through another function key. So if thats the case, see what it say at startup to access that portion of your drive.

i can boot fine with window xp cd in the cdrom.

but only options is too install a fresh window xp or do a repair.


i wanted a boot disk for window xp, so i can goto dos mode and able to access my 2nd hardrive to format and fdisk it.

[Dutch]

If your bios can't see your 2nd drive and XP can't recognize unpartisioned space on the 2nd drive, you haven't connected it properly.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by Dutch

If your bios can't see your 2nd drive and XP can't recognize unpartisioned space on the 2nd drive, you haven't connected it properly.

with window xp install cd, it sees my 2nd harddrive fine.

but i dont want to install windows xp on it. i just want to unpartion it and format it.

[Dutch]

Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Disk Management

That should lead you to your drive that you want to format.

[jbmagic]

Originally Posted by Dutch

Control Panel-->Administrative Tools-->Computer Management-->Disk Management

That should lead you to your drive that you want to format.

thank you so much.


do you recommend fat 32 or NTFS for secondary hd?

[flere-imsaho]

Always NTFS these days.

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Always NTFS these days.

Fat32 is great if you want the stability of Windows Millenium and the security of Windows 95.

But to be safe, I'd go with NTFS as well.