Microsoft Boot Disks

  MS Windows 95 & 95a

  MS Windows 95b (OSR2)

  MS Windows 98 & 98SE

  MS Windows 2000 Professional 4disks

  MS Windows XP Pro (including Corp) 6disks

  MS Windows XP Pro SP1 (includes Corp) 6disks

  MS Windows XP System setup disk  Allows you to boot from a single floppy disk, partition and format the drive and then begin the XP installation from CD.

Note: You do NOT need the 4, 5 or 6 setup disks in order to install Windows 2000 and XP. A common Win98 boot disk such as the Boot Disk Essentials diskette below can be used to install these OS's. This is what the Win XP System Setup Disk above does.  Here's how to do it:

1.       Start the computer with your chosen boot disk.

2.       Change to the cdrom drive.

3.       Go into the \i386 directory on the cdrom.

Run WINNT.EXE to begin the install process.

Special Boot Disks

  Boot Disk Essentials Disk contents: attrib.exe, deltree.exe, doskey.exe, edit.com, emm386.exe, extract.exe, fdisk.exe, format.com, himem.sys, mem.exe, more.com, mouse.com, move.exe, mscdex.exe, reboot.com, scandisk.exe, scanreg.exe, smartdrv.exe, sys.com and xcopy.exe as well as a generic IDE CDROM driver.

  Partition recovery Based on the Boot Disk Essentials disk above. Contents: Generic IDE CDROM driver, mouse driver, basic file manipulation tools, fdisk, format and testdisk.exe - a partition undelete tool which handles Windows and Linux partitions allowing them to be restored when lost or accidentally deleted.

  PCI Discovery Based on a Win98Se boot disk, this diskette contains a generic IDE cdrom driver, mouse driver, a limited set of file manipulation tools, fdisk, format and sys.  It also contains a fast XMS ramdrive program and two DOS-based PCI discovery tools written by Craig Hart and Marcus Hoetsveld respectively.  This tool is useful for identifying PCI and AGP video cards, sound card, motherboard chipsets and other devices on the PCI Bus.

  Bios Update This disk is a minimalist boot disk containing nothing but io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com.  It is intended to be used for making your own bios update disks.  Just copy your bios flashrom update program and bios image files to the floppy disk after creation.

  MadBoot This disk provides automated/manual installations for all windows versions and includes hard disk diagnostic, partitioning and formatting utilities. It also includes a low level formatting utility as well as NTFS support. For a more detailed description and other downloads visit madboot.com.

  DOS NTFS The DOS NTFS boot disk allows you to access NTFS partitions in Windows XP 2000 or NT. There is also a Bootable CD Image (ISO) available. For a more detailed description and other downloads visit NTFS.com.

  Universal Boot Disk This disk allows you to access NTFS drives and provides comprehensive native language support (NLS) under DOS. Based on DOS 8.00 (Windows ME). For a more detailed description and other downloads visit the Universal Boot Disk (UBD) site and Bootdisk.com.

  Ultimate Boot CD for Windows v2.3 UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE© which is how the CD boots into a Windows® environment with network support. Perfect for recovering deleted files on your harddrive without accidentally overwriting them or scanning a virus infected system. This project currently has 50+ utilities included in the download. The DOS/Linux version (Ultimate Boot CD for DOS/Linux v3.1) can be found here (List of tools included in the CD.).