I have a Dimension e510. It did not come with OS disks, and it does not have a floppy drive. I want to change it from Windows Media Center Edition to XP Pro; as near as I can tell, this means I have to format the hard drive and install XP from scratch.

(Aside -- the reason I'm doing this is that a program [game] I want to run is not supported on MCE and does not work on it. I do not care how many people tell me it should work, it does not and is not supported.)

As near as I can tell after that, I need to boot to a different disk so I can do things to the hard disk. To repeat, I do not have a floppy. I have USB flash drives, a USB hard drive, and the CD drive. I figure the easiest thing to do might be to create a bootable CD, seems like a good thing to have anyway.

But I can't find instructions for it. The instructions on the web all say to start with a bootable floppy. The instructions that come in the Roxio I have say to navigate to a bootable image, and I do not know how to find or create one of those.

Can someone here please help me with that step? Secondarily, if you have any reasonable comments on my overall problem, I'd appreciate those as well.

rc