How to make a Windows boot CD

Never · External Since: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 1

Hello:

I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
I do not have the Windows operating system CD.
I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were
so long and convoluted I gave up.
Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD?
Thanks in advance.

philo · External Since: Mar 05, 2004 Posts: 1029

"Never" wrote in message

> Hello:
>
> I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
> I do not have the Windows operating system CD.
> I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were
> so long and convoluted I gave up.
> Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD?
> Thanks in advance.
>

You really need to get a windows CD.

If you want a boot floppy ...in the case of a corrupted boot sector or
incorrectly edited boot.ini

that's easy

just format a floppy

then copy ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini to it

Ken Blake, MVP · External Since: May 21, 2007 Posts: 1073

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:31:15 -0000, Never
wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
> I do not have the Windows operating system CD.
> I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were
> so long and convoluted I gave up.
> Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD?

There probably is no way, simple or otherwise.

Either you already have a boot CD, or your computer came with the
installation files installed on a recovery partition, and you can make
a boot CD from that.

If neither of those is the case, you can *not* make a boot CD.

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Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] · External Since: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 140

www.nu2.nu/pebuilder for Bart's PE (but the web site appears to be down)

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ for Ultimate Boot CD

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"Never" wrote in message

> Hello:
>
> I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
> I do not have the Windows operating system CD.
> I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were
> so long and convoluted I gave up.
> Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD?
> Thanks in advance.
>

Jim C · External Since: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 4

Try doing a google on Bart boot cd. It's been awhile since I made mine but
if I recall i needed to cd players to create it.

"philo" wrote in message

>
> "Never" wrote in message
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
>> I do not have the Windows operating system CD.
>> I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were
>> so long and convoluted I gave up.
>> Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>
> You really need to get a windows CD.
>
>
> If you want a boot floppy ...in the case of a corrupted boot sector or
> incorrectly edited boot.ini
>
>
> that's easy
>
>
> just format a floppy
>
> then copy ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini to it
>
>

Patrick Keenan · External Since: Feb 02, 2005 Posts: 1766

"philo" wrote in message

>
> "Never" wrote in message
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition.
>> I do not have the Windows operating system CD.
>> I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were
>> so long and convoluted I gave up.
>> Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD?
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>
>
> You really need to get a windows CD.
>
>
> If you want a boot floppy ...in the case of a corrupted boot sector or
> incorrectly edited boot.ini
>
>
> that's easy
>
>
> just format a floppy
>
> then copy ntldr ntdetect.com and boot.ini to it

Not sure that approach will either produce a bootable floppy or allow access
to NTFS volumes.

HTH
-pk