How to Create an XP Bootdisk
Johnny Canuck
Bootdisk that can allow me to recognize an NTFS formatted drive (since my
Windows 98 boot disk won't) and will let me do the following:
1)
Copy my Windows XP installation directory from the CD to a newly formatted
hardrive
2)
and then let me run the installation off the hard drive.
This way, if Windows every needs the installation CD, it will just grab the
info from my hard drive instead of prompting me for CD.
Especially handy when the CDROM drive mysteriously dissapears from WinXP and
WinXp prompts you to insert the installation CD to get the driver!
Thanks
JC
Richard Lee
regualr install. I have installed new printer drivers and camera etc and
changed networking without getting asked....
Richard.
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Johnny Canuck
but don't see any option to create a bootdisk or startup disk ....
"Richard Lee" <richar...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Stu Duckworth
The XP CD is bootable...just change your BIOS to see the CDROM as first boot
device. Install XP as required from the CD and then copy the CD to a
partition of choice if u want. IIRC XP asks if u want to format/partition a
drive b4 it installs...but i could be wrong, give it a try.
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Johnny Canuck
prompt you for the original source drive whenever it wants extra files.
Lemme explain, with win98 for example I create a directory:
C:\Win98CD
I then use a bootable disk that recognizes fat 32, go into the win98cd
directory, and run setup from there.
The problem with WinXP is I need to make a bootdisk that recognizes NTFS.
Thanks
JC
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Mark Fawkes
allow you to recognise an NTFS. A bootable floppy will be a DOS floppy,
and would need a file system driver to be able to read and write to an
NTFS partition. One such driver is NTFSDOS Professional from Sysinternals -
not
sure if you can integrate this into a set of bootable floppies (the program
is
970KB), and not sure if this would work with XP (I know that W2000
introduced
a new version of NTFS from the Win NT4 version, not sure about XP).
There is a program that you can use to access a NTFS PC - it has several
floppies - from Wininternals called System Commander
http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/
which would foot the bill - but the site does not indicate if this works
with XP - check the link out for more detailed information.
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Johnny Canuck
Find it out though that MS has not transparently left a way to create
bootdisk's inside the OS like they did with 98 & ME.
JC
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Sick Willie
then when prompted for the CD at a later date, just point it to said
directory?
Sick Willie
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Johnny Canuck
I tried chaning it in the registry, like I Could do with win98/me and it
won't work.
Also, I have no way of installing XP off of the hard drive (Faster way)
without a bootable disk that recognizes NTFS.
I am sure a lot of you here copied the cabs in win98 from the /win98
directory on the CD to the hard drive and installed it that way, works
great!
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Sick Willie
> ya, I can do that, but for convenience sake I was hoping to avoid that.
>
> I tried chaning it in the registry, like I Could do with win98/me and it
> won't work.
>
> Also, I have no way of installing XP off of the hard drive (Faster way)
> without a bootable disk that recognizes NTFS.
>
> I am sure a lot of you here copied the cabs in win98 from the /win98
> directory on the CD to the hard drive and installed it that way, works
> great!
Yes, it does. And other than the fact that you want to have your cab files
on an NTFS drive, it would work the same way in XP. An inelegant, but
effective way would be to have a small FAT partition which held the XP CD
files. Other than having an extra partition around, this would be the way
to go as this partition would be readable and writeable with Win 98 (in case
of an emergency). And you could install XP off the HD.
cf...@hotmail.com
>Snip
>
>Also, I have no way of installing XP off of the hard drive (Faster way)
>without a bootable disk that recognizes NTFS.
>Try the following site for bootup floppies for WinXP PRO
http://www.etplanet.com/windows/bootdisk/
It seems Microsoft has an executable file that will make a series
of 6 floppies for installing WinXP PRO,it should recognize
NTFS.
cfc/
>
Joe Morris
them and wouldn't want to trust my system to bootable files obtained
from an untrusted source...especialy when the disks can be downloaded
dirctly from Microsoft.
See KB article 310994; it has links for XPH and XPP setup floppies
in several languages. Shortcut: open Internet Explorer and type
"mskb 310994" (without the quotes) into the IE address bar.
Note that the article states (and I presume it's correct but I've
not verified it) that you cannot perform an upgrade installation
when using the boot floppies.
Joe Morris
John E.Carty
Explorer, select Format, check the box at the bottom to create an
MS-DOS Boot Disk.