I have windows xp home. I made a bootable floppy disc. When I get to the comand PROMT. What do I type to make windows boot from the floppy disc.

Thanks ChristopherWhat are you trying to do exactly?
I don't think you are going to be able to get Windows to boot from the floppy disk. What version of command prompt / DOS is on the floppy disk? If you are not SURE try the VER command and post back.

And, as asked by Contrex, what are you trying to do? To run Windows XP, you will have to boot off of your HARD drive. There are PE versions of Windows XP that can be run from CD or USB flash, but there is way more information than can fit on a floppy.Ok let me explaine. The startup.ini files are messed up and windows cannot boot up with them. So I made a boot floppy with all the good start up files on it. What the disc does is allow windows to use the boot files on the floppy instead of the hard drive to boot windows. Once i'm in windows I can REPLACE the bad start up files. The floppy disc has these files on it. AUTOEXEC.BAT,BOOT.INI,COMMAND.COM,CONFIG.SYS,DISPLAY.SYS,EGA2.CPI,EGA3.CPI,
EGA.CPI,IO.SYS,KEYB.COM,KEYBOARD.SYS,KEYBRD2.SYS,KEYBRD3.SYS,KEYBRD4.SYS,
MODE.COM,MSDOS.SYS,NTDETECT.COM,NTLDR. Windows will still boot from the hard drive but use the bootini files on the floppy to do it. So I need to know what to type in the command promt to make it do that.

Thanks ChristopherYou didn't make a proper XP boot disk. You made a DOS boot disk with some XP files on it.

There is no DOS command that will start XP!

Correct instructions here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305595

What filesystem does your hard drive have on it? NTFS? FAT32?

It probably has NTFS, but if it does have FAT32, then you can still access your partition and boot.ini file through the boot disk that you already created. Otherwise, use the link provided by Contrex.You can also look at www.bootdisk.com

Also, if you have your Windows XP CD, you can boot to that and CHOOSE the recovery console.
Quote from: GuruGary on May 24, 2007, 11:32:05 AM

but if it does have FAT32, then you can still access your partition and boot.ini file through the boot disk that you already created.