Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 15, 2003 Report Share Posted November 15, 2003 Windows XP does not have the facility to create a startup disk if you are unlucky enough to not have the option to boot from CD-Rom.In order to get around this issue, there is the facility available to create your own set of startup floppies.This program is downloadable from here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 I think that a machine that is incapable of booting from CD would not be the best choice to have Windows XP installed on it.Almost all modern(ish) motherboards and BIOS systems are able to do this. Ones that aren't are likely to be obsolete and that alone will reduce their will restrict the operation of XP to below its optimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 very true pops but they must be out there otherwise MS wouldnt have wasted the time and money writing the program!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 We have had this 'is the floppy dead' debate before........ there may be times when your CD rom has died or is not recognised etc when you have to revert to the floppy!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 I had a PB computer that i installed XP on to...350Mhz, 256MB, 3GBIt ran ok, more RAM would have helped.It booted from the CD-ROM and it was 5/6 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted November 16, 2003 Report Share Posted November 16, 2003 We have had this 'is the floppy dead' debate before........ there may be times when your CD rom has died or is not recognised etc when you have to revert to the floppy!!In those circumstances I wouldn't be installing XP on that machine anyway :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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