boot with out disc

I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other way to
restore my system?

stace wrote:
> I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other
> way to restore my system?

Not knowing your system nor how the original manufacturer/reseller set it
up - I cannot say with any certainty that you do/do not have a restoration
process that involves no external media of any type.

Not knowing you or your friends/family/co-workers - I cannot say with any
certainty that you do/do not have access to a generic Windows XP CD of the
same version/license type that would accept the product key your machine
came with.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

"stace" <stace@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other way to
> restore my system?

Use / start / help to investigate SYSTEM RESTORE
Its value to your problem depends how this function was
set up earlier, i.e. what dates were used to save the OS.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

Perhaps your system supplier has a recovery partition?
And instructions on their site on how to create the recovery disk(s)

"stace" <stace@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other way to
> restore my system?

Other option is to look for an i386 folder on the HD, and burn this to CD. As
it won't be bootable you will also need a bootdisk, you can get one from
http://www.bootdisk.com

You run winnt.exe from DOS, or winnt32.exe from Windows/WinPE to launch the
setup.

> "stace" <stace@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3BCC14F1-6EA3-475A-8C5B-0030904D8F9F@microsoft.com...
> >I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other way to
> > restore my system?
>
>
>

That only works in certain circumstances

"Anteaus" <Anteaus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5B64A174-F81E-4A3C-98AD-BEF5FB0220AF@microsoft.com...
> Other option is to look for an i386 folder on the HD, and burn this to CD.
> As
> it won't be bootable you will also need a bootdisk, you can get one from
> http://www.bootdisk.com
>
> You run winnt.exe from DOS, or winnt32.exe from Windows/WinPE to launch
> the
> setup.
>
>> "stace" <stace@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3BCC14F1-6EA3-475A-8C5B-0030904D8F9F@microsoft.com...
>> >I have windows xp and do not have the boot disc is there any other way
>> >to
>> > restore my system?
>>
>>
>>

Specifically, you cannot do a repair install on NTFS when booted from DOS.
But, that should be possible when booted from Win/BartPE.

HST, my experience with manufacturer's recovery disks/partitions is that
they have no better than an average success-rate. That, and they may
reinstall all of the junk (e.g. norton) as well as Windows.

"DL" wrote:

> That only works in certain circumstances