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MicroCode Man. Experiencing system hangs and other strangeness. Suspect it is the Master Boot Record and need to boot from another device to fix it.

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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Windows XP Home Startup Disk relies on a rather time consuming routine that includes extracting and copying the files on all six disks.

User attention is required, because the process is interactive. Once a disk is full, you are prompted to insert another one, until all the data is transferred onto the devices. You may want to label the disks, since they need to be inserted in the correct order during the setup process. When all six disks are done, set the floppy drive as the first boot device, insert the first disk and restart the computer. Follow the on-screen instructions and insert the other disks when prompted.

The downside is that the process involves a great deal of time and efforts and to be realistic — it requires a floppy disk drive - which most modern computers lack. Both of these aspects greatly reduce the number of users likely to rely on this solution. Windows XP Setup boot disks are available only by download from Microsoft.