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I have a dual boot machine running redhat 8.0 and win xp pro. My windows setup has crashed and i need to make floppy boot disks to re install windows. ...
  1. 04-30-2005 #1
    daveyz
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    making xp floppy

    I have a dual boot machine running redhat 8.0 and win xp pro. My windows setup has crashed and i need to make floppy boot disks to re install windows. My machine will not allow me to boot from a disk, don't ask me why. So the question is, how do i make floppy boot disks for winxp from linux? I am very new to linux. I tried to use wine but it only ran the exe program i have to make the floppys. Please help....
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    Better download the Win XP FLoppy Bootdisk image from here :
    http://www.bootdisk.org
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    i already have the boot disk image, i need to know how to get them to the floppys in linux
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    This is what I did the other day....

    Code:
    dd if="XP_BOOT_DISK.img" of=/dev/fd0

    just put in the correct path and file name for the xp boot disk image...
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    Re: making xp floppy

    Quote Originally Posted by daveyz
    My machine will not allow me to boot from a disk, don't ask me why.
    If you mean that when you put in a bootable floppy disk the system bypasses the floppy and instead boots from your hard drive then you can go into your BIOS settings and change the order in which the drives are read. Set so that A: preceeds C: and then if the floppy is bootable it will load.
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    Have you checked here first?
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