Hi, I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not ship with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to make a Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2. Many thanks in advance!!!
Troubled wrote: > I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did > not ship with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy > way to make a Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP > Professional SP2. Only if you have all the files - in which case - you would most likely already have a Windows XP CD, eh? What is the Bluescreen complaining about? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Troubled wrote: > Hi, > > I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not > ship with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to > make a Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2. > > Many thanks in advance!!! What is the make and model of your laptop? Did you buy it second-hand? Is there an i386 folder on your C: drive?
If a set of disks did not come with the computer, there will be a hidden Recovery partition (not to be confused with System Restore) you would use to do a clean install. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002 Troubled wrote: > I'm staring at the Blue Screen of Death and realize my laptop did not ship > with an XP Install Disk. My question is there an easy way to make a > Bootable CD and if so how? I'm running XP Professional SP2. > > Many thanks in advance!!!
In article <#velb7aMLHA.3496@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote: > If a set of disks did not come with the computer, there will be a hidden > Recovery partition (not to be confused with System Restore) you would use to > do a clean install. and if the reinstall partition is gone there are many sources for OEM media. Like eBay!