What are the main benefits of creating a boot CD?
Creating a Windows XP boot CD may be beneficial in many respects. First and foremost, it gives you the power to perform a clean installation of your system. You may need to do this if you need to remove all the pre-installed junk on your system such a demo ware and shareware that can become a nuisance in the long run. You can also make a bootable CD to ensure that you can install the system should it fail at some point of time. Prerequisites of making a boot CD? You can easily make a boot disk CD using Windows XP that is installed on your system. Before you create bootable CDs, check that you have: • An i386 folder on your hard disk.Usually this is found in the C: drive. This procedure will not work if you do not have this folder on your system. • The Windows XP license key. You must be able to find this key on the recovery disk CD pack that came with your PC. Many vendors put a label at the back of a laptop or CPU comprising the license key of the installed operating system. • Vendor
