Software failure is often inevitable. And alot of people don't bother with a back up. Been there, done that, way too many times myself.
But I stumbled upon this website, with a great tutorial by Charlie White. This would have saved my ass most of those times. My boss had this problem and the tutorial bailed him out like a charm. Attatched is a "cleaned up" txt file of the tutorial. Print it out, and when disater strikes it'll be there handy for you. The link to his site is:

http://www.digitalwebcast.com/2002/0..._boot_toot.htm

good one, source
guess I had better get a bootable XP CD with SP2 in it.

very very good guide that one source! thanks very much. sure this will help me the next time windows crashed. jeez, i am fed up of formatting and reinstalling windows. sure this will help. thanks!
and richardc2000, sure u could make a bootable winxpsp2 cd with a tutorial of making a bootable winxpsp1 hey?

Ah, good stuff for a rainy day. Thanks.

And your changing signature block makes each day a new treat. :)

I'll be updating that sig soon rikytik ;)

thanx source

nice nfo to have

Thanks source.

I am sure this will come in handy.

Cheerz
Dave

yeah .. thx for the srource .. maybe that will be usefull someday !!