winxp home boot disk?

[bunny]

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i currently have xp-pro installed as a stopgap. originally my comp. came with
xp-home. nowi got all my data off the hard drive (docs pix etc) and i am
ready to do a hard reformat,
but my hp pavilion 533w is not recognizing my recovery cd's.

hp keeps telling me to go a bottable diskette with a file name of
"boot98se.exe". i have xp home.

if anyone has any ideas i would greatly appreciate it! i do not have a
seperate windows cd, it is built into my recovery cd.

 

[galen]

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In news:F180AF1F-8599-421F-9FA4-39497E12C352@microsoft.com,
bunny <bunny@discussions.microsoft.com> had this to say:


> i currently have xp-pro installed as a stopgap. originally my comp.
> came with xp-home. nowi got all my data off the hard drive (docs pix
> etc) and i am ready to do a hard reformat,
> but my hp pavilion 533w is not recognizing my recovery cd's.
>
> hp keeps telling me to go a bottable diskette with a file name of
> "boot98se.exe". i have xp home.
>
> if anyone has any ideas i would greatly appreciate it! i do not have a
> seperate windows cd, it is built into my recovery cd.

Open My Computer, insert a floppy into the A: drive, right click, select
format, and tick the box that says make a startup disk or go to bootdisk.com
and download one.

Galen

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