How do I make a bootable disc image?

Question

I want to make a back-up disc for my windows installation. I no longer have a Windows XP disc, but I want to make a back-up disc should something ever go wrong that I need to run a recovery for.

Anyone have any idea if I can do this?

(It was a clean install using an XP disc, no OEM software)

Answer 1

There are several ways to create a bootable disk. Since you do not have a OEM Software you need to get the files from some where else. One choice is to have a floppy disk with you... I hope your computer have a floppy disk drive. If I were you I will take a floppy disk and go to someone else's computer and format the floppy disk. If that person's computer have Windows XP then format the floppy disk. When you format a floppy disk, you'll be givin' a choice to rather you can put system files into the disk. Do so, then you'll be able to create a bootable disk. That's one way... I'll tell you one thing, though. The best start up disk is 'Windows 98' Start up disk. That DOS porgram has a default CD ROM Driver loaded into the disk. You can also use a 'RAM DRIVE' that can temporarely store store files. Go to all boot disk on some body else's, computer and download the floppy disk start up image. I will become a computer technitian someday and I'll tell you, that is the best site to go to, if you need a start up disk. Here's the link... http://www.allbootdisks.com Pick a windows version and you can download either the floppy disk image or the CD image. (CD image works on virtual PC!) I recommend windows 98 boot disk because of its CD ROM support. When you load the OS cd while in DOS type D:\ or what ever the CD Rom drive letter is assigned to and you can actually type setup.exe. (I think that's the command file to start the setup. Good luck!!

Answer 2

ok if the CD isn't booting i'd assume you purely extracted the contents of the ISO to a folder and then threw all those information to the CD which seems stunning although the CD heavily isn't bootable. What you would ought to is burn the ISO on to a CD with a burning application that recognize a thanks to burn ISO information. Now heres the mission. Why do you pick to position in XP onto a pc operating homestead windows 7? i can see you desirous to do this if the computer isn't sensible adequate for homestead windows 7 and it got here with XP from the production facility yet when it got here with homestead windows 7 your going to distinctly a lot no longer have any hardware motive force help with XP because the XP is over 10 years old and the synthetic did not problem to help XP with it, The o/s will be unsupported in April 8 2014. meaning any new destiny courses you pick to position in will examine the o/s version and refuse to position in.

Answer 3

Don't forget you may need the XP serial number so I suggest you find it and make a note of it.

Answer 4

You don’t need to do anything like that just make a restore point with system restore, plus copying windows xp its against the law, bill gates will go hungry because of people like you lol

Answer 5

Norton Ghost

Answer 6

Try this: http://www.acronis.com/