If you need a boot diskette for your computer, review the suggestions below.
Ensure that you do not have a manufacturer boot diskette. When computers are purchased from an OEM, the OEM provides a bootable diskette.
If you have purchased an operating system from a retailer, it might have come with a bootable diskette. Or if you have a copy of MS-DOS diskettes, the first diskette in the series of the disks is a bootable diskette.
If you legally have purchased your copy of an operating system, we recommend you use a friend’s or company’s computer to create a boot diskette. Once created and your system is restored, we then recommend you create a boot diskette on your computer.
Newer computer operating systems, such as Windows 98 and Windows ME, have bootable CDs.
If you create the boot diskette on another computer, make sure that it is intended to boot the specific version of your computer’s OS.
For additional information about creating a bootable diskette, see our guide on how to create a boot disk.
Related information
- See our boot disk definition for further information and related links.
- Computer boot disk help and support.
