i am ridding myself of floppy drives forever. since i still run win9x [stop the laughing -- --] i need to use a tricky disk to fdisk, format, and load the cdrom drivers before running the o/s setup.

Are you saying that you have a folder containing Windows XP installer files, such as c i386 or that you wish to take an installation of Windows XP, and make it somehow bootable from CD?