How
to Make Windows XP Home and Professional Boot Disks
One of the first steps
in solving advanced Windows XP problem is being able to boot into the recovery
console from your Windows XP CD or boot disks. The recovery console is a diagnostic
interface that looks a lot like DOS. You can enter command line instructions and
repair problems without accessing the Windows graphical interface.
Microsoft
requires that all OEM computers with Windows XP preinstalled now be shipped with
a bootable Windows XP CD rather than a comprehensive recovery CD. This means that
if you have purchased your computer over the past few years, you probably have
a bootable Windows XP CD. This is important because you can boot from any Windows
XP original OEM CD. That means you can insert your bootable Windows XP CD into
your CD Drive and the computer will ask you if you wish to boot from the bootable
Windows CD rather than your troubled hard drive.
*note* Some computers are not set to boot from their CD drives first. If you insert your
bootable Windows XP CD and restart your PC and it still boots from your hard drive,
you may need to edit your BIOS to set the CD drive as the first boot device. Every
BIOS is different, so if you fall into this category, we recommend you contact
a service center to ask about gaining access to your computer's BIOS and changing
the boot device priority.
If you don't have a bootable
Windows XP CD, or just can't find it, don't worry. Click next below to find out
where you can download a Windows XP boot disk creator program free of charge.
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