How do I get a boot diskette?

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 (original equipment manufacturer), 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.