Well, you can probably boot from just about any operating system CD or DVD. If you have an XP disk and XP is loaded on the PC, that will work. The main thing is that the hard disk format needs to be readable by the O/S version you're booting, which is why a Win 98 CD probably wouldn't work.
HOWEVER, my experience is when you boot from a Windows CD or DVD, you don't actually have a usable system. You probably won't have any networking, you may not have access to USB, you might just have a command-line DOS prompt. For this reason, I prefer to boot using a Linux "live" CD. Knoppix is sort of the standard for this purpose, although there are dozens of others. When you boot the Knoppix CD, you'll have a nice graphical user interface, networking will work and all your disk drives and USB devices are available. In other words, a working system.
You can make a bootable USB drive using the Knoppix ISO image (or pretty much any live CD). Google will help you out with that.
There are two reasons I don't like quick boot: First, it bypasses a lot of power-on self tests, which don't matter 99.9 percent of the time. But if you have a problem, POST can catch it before you boot the OS. The other reason I don't like it is that it's just additional aggravation if you need to boot to anything other than the normal boot disk.
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