re: Question about 'How do I boot into Windows XP or Windows 2000 with a floppy?'
Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 11:12 am
Posted by Bob Harris
(992 messages posted)
Modern PCs, and yours certainly sounds new enough, can boot from CDs. Whether a
modern PC boots from a CD is controlled by the BIOS settings. There are usually
choices both for what general things are potentially bootable, as well as what order
to boot from. My gateway (circa 1998) was factory set to boot from floppy, CD, and
last the hard drives.
The XP CD is bootable, and is much better than a simple boot floppy, since it has
all the files needed to fix XP. Once you boot via the CD, invoke the recovery console
or the repair option.
On Saturday, March 16, 2002 at 6:49 am, Colin wrote:
>I bought a new computer (Oct.2001) with Windows XP Home Edition pre loaded. I recently
>(1 week ago) bought Windows XP Professional (upgrade) and tried to upgrade my computer.
>Due to the computer "locking up"-blue screen /stop messages/IRQ's, I contacted
Microsoft
>(US) support. The Microsoft Tech.(e-mail) has instructed me to use Win 98 start
up
>(floppy) disk to boot up and enter "DOS" and type in changes (which Im not able
to
>do) now he instructs me to change the BIOS to boot up from the cd. Has anyone had
>this problem or can help.
>
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