[Resolved] Boot Disc On CD?

Is there any way to create a boot disk on a CD? I need a boot disk for a laptop that doesn't have a floppy drive.

I pretty much just need to go in and partition and format a Windows XP system and reload everything.

Is this possible, or is there a better way?

Can't you boot off your CD? It will allow you to format when you reinstall Windows.

The XP CD is bootable. You can also make one with Nero.

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Originally Posted by dglienna

Can't you boot off your CD? It will allow you to format when you reinstall Windows.

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The CDs that came with the laptop are all image disks created by Norton Ghost. No actual Windows XP CD came with it.

Ah, but your suggestions reminded me that I had Windows XP CDs from other systems. So I just used one of those and stopped it when it started copying files.

Thanks for the help, guys.

You can also create a standard XP boot floppy and copy the file onto a CD to make it bootable.