Booting Winxp from DVD

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Does anybody know if it is possible to create a bootable DVD from which
i can boot Winxp
(something like Knoppix)
 
Yes, it is. You have to be sure your BIOS looks for the CD drive
at boot time, and prior to looking for C.

Knoppix, in fact, does a good job of explaining that - try their
site for info.

And don't post HTML messages; Plain Text only, please.
 
You don't need a DVD...a CD has enough capacity for this purpose.

As recommended by others, the BartPE boot disc is a good place to start, but it
takes a lot of time to find/create/add and test the additional plug-ins you may
want or need.

I recommend the UBCD4WIN CD instead. This is a BartPE CD on steroids. It
utilizes the Bart compiler (PEBuilder) to generate the ISO image and then burn
the image to a CD and it has most of the freeware utilities and drivers you'll
need already established for you. Naturally, some updates are required for the
AV utilities.

See this link for more info and to download all requirements, including the
BartPE builder software. It's all free:

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

Note: One BartPE plug-in was left out of the UBCD4WIN list. It's called
"bootfix". That's a good one to add back before compiling. Read the htm file in
the BartPE plugin folder for more detail.
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Hope this helps,
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| Does anybody know if it is possible to create a bootable DVD from which
| i can boot Winxp
| (something like Knoppix)
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