Win xp pro boot disk

[innskeeper]

I want to flash my bios but need to make a boot disk for winxp pro. I've gone to different sites for info and some say I need to copy onto the floppy "ntdetect.com, ntldr, boot.ini". Some say use blank floppy right click A drive, format, click create startup disk (when viewing which files are actually on the floppy after this none of the above mentioned are present. Another problem is that on my pc I searched for the boot.ini and could not find it even though the setting to view hidden/system files was checked. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[NogginBoink]

This won't work.

The "XP boot disk" is used to boot XP from the hard drive when your boot files or MBR or partition boot sector is damaged. The XP boot disk that you describe simply uses the floppy to get ntldr started, and ntldr loads XP from the hard drive.

Instead, open My Computer, right click the A: drive, select Format... and check "Create an MS-DOS startup disk."

-Noggin

 

[innskeeper]

Instead, open My Computer, right click the A: drive, select Format... and check "Create an MS-DOS startup disk."

So this is the boot disk I would need to flash bios?

 

[WhoDeeny]

Yes, add your flash utility and rom to this disk as well for ease of use...

 

[innskeeper]

Noggin it worked great thanks

 

[sak]

Hey i wonder if that dos disk has CD-rom drivers...cause i cant seem to get my cd-rom drives from working in dos mode with my other setup disks..???

later

 

[bozo1]

Originally posted by: sak
Hey i wonder if that dos disk has CD-rom drivers...cause i cant seem to get my cd-rom drives from working in dos mode with my other setup disks..???

That DOS disk does not contain CDROM drivers. For those, you need to manually copy the drivers to the floppy, create a config.sys and autoexec.bat that loads the proper stuff - or just use a Win98 startup disk.