According to the Langalist, there is a way to create a boot disk. Here is a portion of his letter and the section about creating the disk.
Quote: Neither Win2K nor WinME has the ability to create a simple, basic, DOS- based boot floppy (a "startup disk") unless you jump through hoops or do things in nonstandard ways. Without a boot floppy, there's no easy way to start your PC if the hard drive has trouble or if Windows is hosed so badly you can't get it to start. Without a boot floppy, there's also no easy way to do low-level DOS maintenance. Because XP is the fusion of Win2K and Win9x/ME, I assumed it would follow the same "no boot floppy" tack. But instead, I was surprised to poke around in XP and see that the format option there does indeed offer a "Create MS-DOS Startup Disk." Unquote. Keith Thompson Lisa Schnepf wrote: > > Can you make a startup disk for Windows XP? I didn't see the option. > Thanks. > > > Lisa > > "You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong" ~ Abraham > Lincoln > > [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of >red_white_blue_vert_back.jpg] -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson I Didn't Climb to the Top of the Food Chain to Be a Vegetarian ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
