If you need a boot disk that contains FDISK and FORMAT, you can create one on a computer running Windows 98. As an alternative, you could create a free (and legal) boot disk using FreeDOS.

However, some users have had success using a Windows XP SP2 upgrade disc by attaching an external optical drive and placing the old (Windows 2000, NT, or other) disc in it. MacFixIt reader Ovaz ...

I haven't seen this really talked about much elsewhere, so I thought I'd share my experience. I just did a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 on my Boot Camp partition, and installed Boot Camp 2.0 ...

When it’s done, you should have a bootable USB stick that you can use to install Windows XP the same way you would if you had a CD/DVD drive. A few notes here.

Re-sizing partition after Windows XP installation Several users have inquired about modifying the size of their Windows partition after setting up Boot Camp and installing Windows XP. So far ...

I installed Windows XP on an SCSI drive. The system boots fine when the XP disc is in the CD, but not when I remove it I get the old "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter" message ...

Insert the installation CD for the operating system you wish to use and then restart the machine, having made sure the CD-ROM is defined in the BIOS setup as first in the boot sequence. Hard drive ...