For those of you wanting to create an Emergency boot disk that will boot you straight to the desktop here is a simple method.

1. Insert a floppy disk into your floppy drive.
2. Start, All Programs,Accessories,Command Prompt
   Type format a: and press Enter.
   Next open Windows Explorer and on the top toolbar click Tools followed by Folder Options
   Click the View tab and put a tick against Show Hidden Files and Folders . Then remove the tick mark next to the Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) option. Apply
3. Now in Windows explorer look for the C: directory - this is the root directory and find files named NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM.  Copy these to the floppy disk.
   Open Notepad (Start, All Programs, Accessories, Notepad) and type the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows [operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Windows XP"

1. Next click File, Save as and in the dialog box type "a:\boot.ini" (You must include the quotation marks. The boot ini file should then be saved to the floppy. Exit notepad
2. Now reboot your computer with the floppy disk in the drive and it should boot to the desktop.