- 1). Create a folder in your computer called "XP Recovery." Click on "My Computer," followed by the "C" drive, then right click in empty space and select "create" followed by "folder." This will be the location where you store you data prior to burning it to a recovery CD.
- 2). Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive.
- 3). Go to "My Computer," then to the CD drive (usually the D drive). Highlight everything contained in the folder called "root" and copy it into the folder you made during step one.
- 4). Go online to your computer manufacturer's site and download the main drivers for your computer. The drivers are a series of instructions that tell the computer how to "talk" to the hardware contained therein. You will likely need at least a "video" driver and a "network" driver. Save these files within the XP Recovery folder created during step one.
- 5). Download the "Isobuster" program (linked below) to your computer, installing it and running it. Select your CD drive from within the Isobuster program, then highlight the "bootable CD folder," then drag the file named Bootimage.img to your XP Recovery folder.
- 6). Burn the contents of your XP recovery folder onto a blank CD. You will now be able to recover the contents of your computer by simply installing the CD and running it if something goes wrong with your current Windows XP installation.
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