Mjy DAUGHTER has a fairly new Sony Viao desktop computer. She had Infected it with a boot sector virus. I tried many PROGRAMS to remove the virus with no luck. I ended up have to USE a program called DBAN to wipe the hard drive. In the process of wiping the hard drive apparently it erased the boot sector of the hard drive also. In the past on other computers I have been able to use a bootable floppy disk for any version of windows and then Install Windows XP. This computer does not have a floppy disk drive. I have been trying to make a bootable CD rom or a bootable flash drive to get the Installation process started, I have found many programs and tried but have noft had any luck with a bootable CD or a bootable flash drive. Can anyone help me in LOCATING a bootable CD for Windows XP that is easy for me to useThis solution involves Nero so don't know if it will help.
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/install/winxp_bootable.htm
truenorthIf it is a genuine Windows XP CD, it should itself be bootable. No floppy or other bootable media is necessary. The fact that the computer is fairly new means it will almost undoubtedly support booting from a bootable CD, just make sure it's set as the first bootable device in the BIOS.

If configured correctly, the message "Press any key to boot from CD..." will appear for a few seconds. Quote from: Roy Cason on JUNE 17, 2012, 05:27:45 PM

...In the past on other computers I have been able to use a bootable floppy disk for any version of windows and then Install Windows XP. ...