- #How to create windows xp boot disk how to#
- #How to create windows xp boot disk windows 10#
- #How to create windows xp boot disk license#
- #How to create windows xp boot disk iso#
#How to create windows xp boot disk how to#
NeoSmart Technologies has extensive guides on how to create recovery media for all major PC manufacturers that have their own software for recovery procedures and a recovery disk for all Windows versions (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10).
#How to create windows xp boot disk windows 10#
For Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10 the “boot disk” term is mostly replaced with the term “recovery disk” (sometimes also named as a “repair disk” or “restore disk”).
The term “boot disk” was mostly used in connection with Windows XP (and older versions) and, in some cases, with Windows Vista.
So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to use my Windows XP Professional image, and now I'm just going to start to fire up with yet, with the BartPE disk inserted. All right, so to show how this works now I am just loading this CD into a virtual CD drive on a virtual machine.
#How to create windows xp boot disk iso#
Now, I'm doing this in virtual, so I'm just going to boot up the file from this, I'm just going to boot up the computer from this ISO file directly. In a few minutes it'll spit out a fully functional ISO file that you can now burn a CD from and boot something else. Make sure you agree with Windows XP's licensing agreement, so don't be handing this out on the Internet. It says Hey, that directory doesn't exist. I'm just going to create an ISO file, so I'm going to click build. And if you choose to burn you can you know, erase the DRW, you can have it eject, that sort of thing. Now, for the output you can either do an ISO file, which you can burn a CD with later, or you can just burn the CD/DVD. The output file, fine, I'm going to use the default. The custom is if we're want to add anything custom to this installation any stuff you want to be able to have, so if you need a terminal program or somethin' like that this is where you'd put it in.
I'm just going to point it at my CD Rom, which already has the Windows XP in there. Search for the windows installation files? No, I don't think so.
#How to create windows xp boot disk license#
It's not allowed by the XP license agreement, and that you know, this is Bart's software and you can't screw around with it. Now it comes up it's going to ask you to first confirm the license agreement, which says you can't do anything bad with this software. And since I'm not going to keep this I'm just going to select all the defaults, and I don't really mind sure, create a desktop icon. When you run it it's going to give you the usual warning when you download something from the Internet, select your language. I've already downloaded it, so we're going to just skip this step here. You're going to click on the download link, and pick, a pick a mirror close to you. So here we go, going to go down to download. Now, we're going to start off by going over to the BartPE site. BartPE is a boot disk creator developed by a guy named Bart that allows you to boot your machine into XP in a useful way, so you don't just get a limited command prompt. We're going to be using the BartPE method. Hi, I'm Dan Afonso, from Afonso Consulting and Enfold IT, and this is how to create a boot disk for Windows XP. Did you know that a boot disk can be used to correct some problems with XP if you can't get it to start up.