- boot with out disc
- Posted by stace on June 7th, 2008
I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other way to
restore my system?
- Posted by Shenan Stanley on June 7th, 2008
stace wrote:
Not knowing your system nor how the original manufacturer/reseller set it
up - I cannot say with any certainty that you do/do not have a restoration
process that involves no external media of any type.
Not knowing you or your friends/family/co-workers - I cannot say with any
certainty that you do/do not have access to a generic Windows XP CD of the
same version/license type that would accept the product key your machine
came with.
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- Posted by Don Phillipson on June 7th, 2008
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Use / start / help to investigate SYSTEM RESTORE
Its value to your problem depends how this function was
set up earlier, i.e. what dates were used to save the OS.
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- Posted by DL on June 7th, 2008
Perhaps your system supplier has a recovery partition?
And instructions on their site on how to create the recovery disk(s)
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- Posted by Anteaus on June 8th, 2008
Other option is to look for an i386 folder on the HD, and burn this to CD. As
it won't be bootable you will also need a bootdisk, you can get one from
http://www.bootdisk.com
You run winnt.exe from DOS, or winnt32.exe from Windows/WinPE to launch the
setup.
- Posted by DL on June 8th, 2008
That only works in certain circumstances
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- Posted by Anteaus on June 9th, 2008
Specifically, you cannot do a repair install on NTFS when booted from DOS.
But, that should be possible when booted from Win/BartPE.
HST, my experience with manufacturer's recovery disks/partitions is that
they have no better than an average success-rate. That, and they may
reinstall all of the junk (e.g. norton) as well as Windows.
"DL" wrote:
