Windows XP Reboot Disk - HELP PLEASE!

[leeb]

hi there,

appaently my old man has told one of his mates that i will make a reboot disk for his computer running windows XP. got told today, he was expecting it yesterday, oops, maybe telling me earlier woulda been a good start.

I say start as thats all it would have been, cos i dont have a scooby how the hell i am meant to make a reboot disk from my standard system.

Im really hoping someone here could put a post back to this telling me A. if its possible, and B. how the bl00dyhell to do it.

Ta very much.

>>> Edited by leeb on Friday 16th April 16:44

[arcturus]

If his mate has a windows XP CD, then he can boot directly from that.

Similarly if he has the manufacturers recovery CD (as opposed to a MS Windows CD) then he can boot from that as well.

If he has neither, then sounds a little dodgy to me.

But yes it is possible to do.

Look here: www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=E8FE6868-6E4F-471C-B455-BD5AFEE126D8

[arcturus]

and here: www.winxpfix.com/page10.htm

and here: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305595

>> Edited by arcturus on Friday 16th April 17:00

[arcturus]

In each of the above cases, if you need to completely reload Windows XP you will still need a Windows XP CD or official recovery disk from the PC manufacturer.

You could use a copied or pirated disk but you will then run into problems with activation and for reasons below I cannot condone that anyway.

You can of course Google for Windows XP install disk cracks and yes it is possible, but since I am in the business MS would probably take a dim view if I said any more; just do a quick Google!

>> Edited by arcturus on Friday 16th April 17:09

[rmhodv]

Hope this helps. Have a look a www.bootdisk.com

[leeb]

excellent, thanks a lot, think thats gunna help, dont think its dodgy his mates computer just got busted by a loada viruses i think, not sure tho.

ill pass this on and see if they can use it, thanks again tho