You don't the last version of windows to use the ERD was windows 2000
Emergency Repair Disk (EPD)
Emergency Repair Disk (EPD)Information about your current installation.
Emergency Repair Disk (ERD), which contains information about your current installation. Use only as a last resort because it restores the system back to the original state after initial instalation of OS.
An emergency start-up disk
Boot from the XP CD use the recovery tool within the disk
It is called rescue disk or emergency disk. It is useful when recovering from a failed hard drive that you cannot access itsresources.
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A free Windows XP repair disk can be downloaded from Softonic, Tech Republic, Kioskia, Software Solution, Boot From CD, PC Support and Disk Internals.
If your Windows operating system gets corrupted, you can start the computer using the boot disk and repair the damage.
Control Panel->All Control Panel Items->Backup and Restore->Create a system repair disk.
If you are asking about creating a bootable flash drive, I can recommend an application called Bootsage to create a Windows 7 installer flash drive. It runs under Windows XP as well as Windows 7. http://firesage.com/bootsage
Yes, Boot with disk, then choose "Windows Recovery Console"