How to make boot disk

To start Windows, the Windows XP installation CD-ROM can be used as a bootable disk. When you use this to start your computer, you can use Recovery Console of Windows to recover the system software.

All that we require is a blank floppy disk and the Windows XP CD-ROM or an operational Windows XP-based computer.

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Creating a bootable floppy disk by using a computer with Windows XP:

Format a floppy disk by using the Windows XP format utility.
To do this follow these steps:

1. a) Insert the floppy disk that you want to use into the floppy disk drive.
   b) Click Start, click Run, type format a:, and then click OK.
2. Copy Ntldr & Ntdetect.com files from I386 folder on Windows XP installation CD-ROM, or from the Windows XP installation floppy disk, or from a computer that is running the same version of Windows XP as the computer that you want to access by using the boot floppy disk.
   a) Insert the Windows XP installation media into the disk drive of the computer.
   b) Click Start, click Run, type :\I386, and then click OK.
   c) Right-click the Ntldr file, and then click Copy.
   d) Click Start, click Run, type a:, and then click OK.
   e) Click the Edit menu, and then click Paste.
   f) Repeat steps 2b through 2e for the Ntdetect.com file.
   
3. Create a Boot.ini file, or copy one from a computer that is running Windows XP, and then modify the Boot.ini file to match the computer that you are trying to access.
   a) Click Start, click Run, type notepad, and then click OK.
   b) Type the following text:
   [boot loader] timeout=30 Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows=""

   Note: Let us assume that you are trying to start Windows XP Professional computer. Therefore, please replace "" with "< Microsoft Windows XP Professional>"

   c) Click the File menu, and then click Save As.
   d) Select 3 ½ Floppy (A:) from the Save in drop-down list, type Boot.ini in the File name text box, and then click Save.
   

Note: If your computer starts from a SCSI hard disk drive, you may have to replace the multi(0) entry with scsi(0). If you are using scsi(x) in the Boot.ini file, copy the correct device driver for the SCSI controller that is used on the computer to the root of the boot disk, and then rename the device driver to Ntbootdd.sys. Change the disk(0) number to represent the SCSI-ID of the hard disk drive you want to start. If you are using multi(x) in the Boot.ini file, you do not have to change the code in the Boot.ini file.

Insert the floppy disk into the floppy disk drive of your computer, and then restart Windows XP.

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