After a failure to boot up, is there a way to make a disk which will always boot, getting around the screwed up normal boot process, and allow access to the hard disk to save files?
2006-06-10 15:45:56 · 2 answers · asked by Phil L 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You can go to microsoft's website and download a floppy disk recovery setup for WinXP. Once you cannot boot there is no way to make a savior boot disk as you ask above. You need to plan ahead or go to a friend's computer and download the floppy reinstall.
2006-06-10 17:19:29 · answer #1 · answered by John Luke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a friend to download the latest Knoppix ISO and burn it to a CD for you. Knoppix is a great freeware Linux distriubtion which boots directly from the CD. It will automatically detect your Windows partitions and allow you to get to your files.
If your windows installation is NTFS, you'll just have read access. If it's FAT32, you'll also be able to write to your windows partition.
2006-06-10 15:53:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋