![]() Microsoft now allows you to download a six-disk collection that really does let you boot from your floppy drive - but only so you can install Windows XP from CD, nothing more. No, you couldn’t do anything much when you booted. ![]() There was a little check box in the disk formatting dialog box that claimed it would create a boot disk - but the generated floppy amounted to little more than a cruel joke. ![]() If your PC wouldn’t boot from the CD, you couldn’t even install Windows. “Let them eat cake!” came the cry from the Windows executives. When Microsoft released Windows XP, there was no provision whatsoever for a boot disk. Heck, those older versions of Windows stepped you through a complicated procedure for creating a two-disk set that could help you cure whatever ailed Windows. If you grew up in the Windows Me/98 world, you know the importance of having an emergency boot disk - a floppy disk that you could stick in the drive, click Restart, and bring your computer back to life. Making an old DOS startup disk work on your system ![]() Demanding a Windows XP CD when you buy a new computerĬreating a Windows XP startup disk that bypasses key system files
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