Windows XP Home Startup Disk

Pretty much anyone who had to perform a fresh installation of Windows on a computer is surely careful when it comes to the installation media, a vital component in the absence of which the process would not be possible.

Some years ago, with older versions of Microsoft's proprietary operating system, the setup was completed end-to-end using the now antiquated diskettes. A disadvantage of this method resided in the floppy disks themselves, given their rather fragile nature and predisposition to quick data corruption.

Nonetheless, closer to present days, optical discs began to be used on a larger scale as the favored way of distributing software solutions. As widespread as they may be, the CDs and DVDs will always need the drive to read them in order to be of any use, but there are many PCs without one such unit and despite this Windows can still be installed.

Regardless the reason for which a computer lacks the optical drive, users have at their disposal the possibility of trying the setup from a USB Flash memory device or they can turn for one last time to the notorious diskettes.

Windows XP Home Startup Disk is handy software package that was especially created in order to provide users who need to install or re-install on their system the old operating system for which Microsoft ceased to provide updates as it reached the end of support.

In case there is no CD/DVD drive to run the installation from, this utility can be of assistance by offering a simple method to copy the data needed for the OS setup onto floppy disks. These can be then used to boot from and initiate the installation of Windows XP Home Edition.

There are no special prerequisites needed to use this package, so the user just has to keep the blank and formatted diskettes ready and insert them one by one to have the files copied immediately.