Setup Disks With Utilities

Mar 10, 2005

I have the setup disks for XP (all 6 of them) with utilities on the 6th disk that I use constantly in my work environment to troubleshoot/repair PC problems. How do I get all 6 floppies onto a CD and have it boot up?

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For some reason they have not included these very usefull gems, the Setup Disks for Windows XP, for all those that cannot boot from a CD for some reason.XP uses 6 floppies and there is a version for XP Pro and one for Home Edition. You need the right set for your version. The makeboot and files forthe floppies are not on the XP CD.

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