If you miss it, you will have to reboot the system again. These adjustments are made before Windows tries to load. You may need to adjust the computer BIOS settings to use the CD ROM drive as the first boot device instead of the hard disk. It would be a good idea to test your bootable CD on a computer that is working. Use a new CD and this free and easy program to burn your ISO file and create your bootable CD: The bootable ISO image file you need to download is called: You can make a bootable Recovery Console CD by downloading an ISO file and burning it to a CD. If you are a SE and making a post, you better include a Microsoft KB article in it somewhere or it doesn't count. The Microsoft Support Engineers either don't know how to do this or are prohibited - I think because there is not a Microsoft KB article about it. I do not recall in recent memory any XP issue I could not resolve with one or the other. Thanks to author for the update.Here is how to make a bootable XP Recovery Console CD and a Hiren's BootCD (neither require XP media). Updated Q&D Unit/Track/Head/Sector to V1.3j Thanks to author for the update.You can access the same tools as you would from the CD version. A script on the CD prepares your USB memory stick so that it can be used on newer machines that supports booting from USB devices.

Run Ultimate Boot CD from your USB memory stick.Wouldn't you like to avoid digging into the dusty box to look for the right floppy disk, but simply run them all from a single CD? Then the Ultimate Boot CD is for you! Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.Even if you do have a floppy drive, it is still much much faster to run your diagnostic tools from the CDROM drive, rather than wait for the tool to load from the floppy drive. Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive.More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them. Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives.You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to: However, you do need an operating system and a ISO-capable CD writer software to create the Ultimate Boot CD from the downloaded ISO image file. It will boot from any Intel-compatible machine, regardless of whether DOS/Windows/Linux/BeOS is installed on the machine. Ultimate Boot CD runs independently of any operating system.

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