- Creating boot disks on cd?
- Posted by Joe on January 17th, 2006
Anyone know how I could create a boot disk in Linux to burn to cd with such
small niceties as fdisk, scandisk, and any other usefull wee tools?
- Posted by Pegasus \(MVP\) on January 17th, 2006
Best ask in a Linux newsgroup.
"Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3EB73D35-6663-4F55-9A8D-B126FE8D4AB5@microsoft.com...
> Anyone know how I could create a boot disk in Linux to burn to cd with
such
> small niceties as fdisk, scandisk, and any other usefull wee tools?
- Posted by Joe on January 17th, 2006
Yes, 'twould prbably be true... was hoping to see if anyone might've known
here... as I'm hoping to use it to reinstall XP.... blech
"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> Best ask in a Linux newsgroup.
>
>
> "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3EB73D35-6663-4F55-9A8D-B126FE8D4AB5@microsoft.com...
> > Anyone know how I could create a boot disk in Linux to burn to cd with
> such
> > small niceties as fdisk, scandisk, and any other usefull wee tools?
>
>
>
- Posted by Carey Frisch [MVP] on January 17th, 2006
Alternative:
Download the free thirty day trial version of DriveScrubber
and use it.
DriveScrubber
http://www.iolo.com/ds/index.cfm
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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/
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"Joe" wrote:
| Anyone know how I could create a boot disk in Linux to burn to cd with such
| small niceties as fdisk, scandisk, and any other usefull wee tools?
- Posted by Michael Stevens on January 18th, 2006
In news:5DFAC057-51E7-4E4F-8C84-074CAF16FDF8@microsoft.com,
Joe <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> replied with a ;-)
> Yes, 'twould prbably be true... was hoping to see if anyone might've
> known here... as I'm hoping to use it to reinstall XP.... blech
>
The XP CD is bootable.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Best ask in a Linux newsgroup.
>>
>>
>> "Joe" <Joe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3EB73D35-6663-4F55-9A8D-B126FE8D4AB5@microsoft.com...
>>> Anyone know how I could create a boot disk in Linux to burn to cd
>>> with such small niceties as fdisk, scandisk, and any other usefull
>>> wee tools?
