then type it again, it will hopefully show your C drive with disk cache enabled. Once at the A:\ again, go to the drive assocated with your CD (for example, the e drive) by typing e: Once the drives are ready, reboot again with the BIOS Settings as they were and the xp bootable disk in. If you have to create partitions or format the harddrive do so now.ĥ. Once it finishes going though setting up the cd drivers, and ramddrive, it will bring you back to a A:\ prompt.Ĥ. It will boot to the Windows 98 Setup screen, click Boot with CD-ROMģ. Save your settings and put in your bootable XP disk we made.Ģ. First things first, go into your PC’s BIOS and change the Boot Order, so your PC Boots your CD Drive first. Very helpful for installing OS when you don’t have a floppy or want to bother with the floppy.ġ. When it boots, it will boot up like when you put in the windows 98 floppy disk.
Once it finishes, you will have a bootable windows xp disk.
and then Burn the disk, be sure to finalize the disk too! Now go to the C:\winxpboot folder and copy all of the files on the CD project. Nero will ask for either the boot image locatoin or to use the Floppy, use the floppy. In the wizard or startsmart, go to Create Bootable Disc.ĥ. Then copy the file: smartdrv.exe to this same folder (c:\winxpboot) (smartdrv.exe can be found with the windows 98 or on the web)Ĥ. (for our example, we’ll copy them to c:\winxpboot\ )Ģ. Copy the contents of your Windows XP Setupdisk to your PC’s harddrive, be sure you copy ALL the files. This requires a FAT32 Partition! NTFS partitions are not accessible with Win98 Bootdiskįirst, you will need your copy of windows xp setup disk, a windows 98se floppy boot disk (go here to get one: ), a copy of smartdrv.exe, and neroburn 5 or 6 installed.ġ.
#Windows xp boot disk professional how to
This recipe will explain how to make a copy of your windows xp bootable from cd.
#Windows xp boot disk professional install
This recipe requires the following ingredients:įAT32 Parition to install XP on (REQUIRED, NTFS is not detected in DOS w/o appropriate software)
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