Thread: How to obtain Windows XP Setup disks for a floppy boot installation

Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by download from Microsoft. We cannot need to use a bootable CD-ROM if the Setup boot disks are presented so that you can execute the Setup program on PC.If your PC does support booting from a CD-ROM, or if network-based installation is exist, Microsoft suggested that you use those installations techniques instead.

Future products will no longer support installation by using the Setup boot disks. Installation of future Microsoft operating systems will need the capacity to start from the CD drive or by using PXE boot from the network.

How to make a bootable floppy disk for Windows XP to access a drive with a broken boot chain on an Intel-processor-based PC explain in these article.

The Windows XP installation CD-ROM is a bootable disk and can be used to start Windows. You can use the Windows Recovery Console to help recover the system software, when you use the Windows XP installation CD-ROM to start your PC