HELP! floppy drive broken and time to floopy

[kartman2k]

the pins on my motherboard has broken off so i am left with no floppy drive. I need to format my computer. What should i do? I've heard something about making a bootable CD.. is this possible? If so then how can i do it?

 

[BenRosey]

Copy the files off of your boot disk and burn them to a CD.

 

[monckywrench]

Download an appropriate boot disk from bootdisk.com or other source, install Winimage, build a bootdisk image file, use your cd burning software to make a bootable CD using "floppy emulation", and you are good to go.
You can put other software on the rest of the CD including drivers and a self-extracting Winimage file of your boot disk for writing to actual floppies in future. Windows 2000 and 98, for example, fit nicely on one CD.

 

[kartman2k]

bootdisk image file?

 

[TheCorm]

With Windows, You should only need to boot from floppy if installing 95, 98 or NT.....
ME, XP and 2000 all have bootable CD's.

Corm