How To Create a Boot Disk to Start Windows XP

Create a Windows startup disk when you first install Windows on the computer. This disk is different from an MS-DOS startup disk. Unlike MS-DOS, the whole Windows operating system cannot fit on one floppy disk. A Windows startup disk contains only the files that you must have to start the operating system with the remainder of the Windows system files installed on the hard disk drive. To create the startup disk, follow these steps:

1.	Insert a blank floppy disk in drive A, and then format the disk by using Windows XP.
2.	From the root folder of the system partition of your hard disk drive (for example, C:\-), copy the following files to the floppy disk: Boot.ini NTLDR Ntdetect.com You may have to remove the hidden, system, and read-only attributes from the files.
3.	Restore the hidden, system, and read-only attributes to the files on your hard disk if you removed these attributes.
4.	If the Bootsect.dos file or the Ntbootdd.sys file resides in the system partition, repeat steps 2 through 4 to copy these files to the boot disk.