How to create a bootable floppy disk for an NTFS or FAT partition in Windows XP. This step-by-step article describes how to create a bootable floppy disk for Windows XP to access a drive with a faulty boot sequence on an Intel-processor-based computer. The Windows XP installation CD-ROM is a bootable disk and can be used to start Windows. When you use the Windows XP installation CD-ROM to start your computer, you can use the Windows Recovery Console to help recover the system software. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: ( ) Description of the Windows XP Recovery Console Note The procedure for RISC-based computers is different and not documented in this article. Requirements A blank floppy diskThe Windows XP CD-ROM or an operational Windows XP-based computer Create a boot floppy disk by using a Windows XP-based computer Format a floppy disk by using the Windows XP format utility.
Create a boot floppy disk without a Windows XP-based computer Troubleshooting. At Kevin’s Blog. EDIT 2009/12/11: Microsoft Provides a tool to do this for you – Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. See the Microsoft Store Help on the ISO-Tool ( It surprised me to find that there are very few dead-simple guides to creating a bootable USB thumb/pen/flash drive for a Vista and/or Windows 7 installation. I cobbled together the following from VistaPCGuy and another source I don’t remember right now. This will walk through the steps to create a bootable USB flash drive for the purpose of installing a Vista or Windows 7 OS. These instructions assume that you have a computer with Windows Vista installed on it.
Required: USB Flash Drive (4GB+)Microsoft OS Disk (Vista / Windows 7)A computer running Vista / Windows 7 Step 1: Format the DriveThe steps here are to use the command line to format the disk properly using the diskpart utility. Step 4: Set your BIOS to boot from USBThis is where you’re on your own since every computer is different. Windows 7 Boot Editor - Dual Boot Windows 7 or Vista with Windows XP. MKBT, Make Bootable. SolutionBase: Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive.