psongman said:
Hi, I have spent the last 3 days trying every conceivable way to
boot up the iso image of my Windows XP that I made and burned to
CD. I have searched and googled but am not getting the results from
any of those posts. I keep getting a this program cannot be run in
DOS mode or this program must be run under WIN 32. Before I got
Windows XP it used to run Win98SE. On the startup screens it seems
to be reverting to WIN98 somehow though there is nothing on the
hard drive. My processor is Pentium III 833 and my hard drive is a
40 gig Maxtor all formatted. So, please help me getting this
resetup, as I want a clean install, none of the old stuff from the
past 3 years on there, just fresh as I am going to use it just for
recording some music. I had a computer tech here when my computer
wouldn't install RoadRunner and I watched him, there are so many
little keys to enter that the average guy doesn't know about to
install devices or software on these computers. Anyway, hope you
can help me. DD
One cannot boot with an .ISO image of Windows XP.
If you had an authentic, genuine version of Windows
XP, that Windows XP CD is already bootable once
you set your CD drive as the first bootable drive in
the BIOS.
Hi, Ok, please don't take this negatively, but every and I mean
every time I ask for help on the Internet, I always get either some
answer that redirects what I asked or some foul reply. I asked why
my iso of WinXP Pro Corp wouldn't boot when computer wasn't
starting up. Now, if you try to tell me that you can't boot with an
iso image of XP, well, then I have to tell you that your info is
incorrect, it is being done every day of the week. I am asking is
why won't the computer read the CD and set it up. I hope I didn't
toe step, you all know about PE builder, right? Thanks for
listening and assisting, DD
Windows XP Pro "Corp".
That old pirated piece of crap still floating about?
If you mean your companies Windows XP Volume License Agreement installation
CD - that's a different story.
You said "boot with burnt ISO". I have seen too many times someone take the
"iso" file and burn it to CD like any other file - and expect it to work. I
have yet to see (in this thread) that youy have actually burned the image in
the ISO to a CD (so that you can browse the CD and see more than one file -
see the actual Windows XP installation files in the proper directory
structure.)
ISOs don't normally "boot" in the Windows world. Unless you mean you are
installing it on a Virtual PC (or some such environment) and you made this
ISO image (using what method/application - might I ask?) so that you could
redirect the Virtual PC (when booting) to boot from said ISO image (mounting
it like a CD drive)?
Burned CDs from ISO images are no longer called "iso images" as they are now
just CDs containing what the ISO image contained.. So you can see that your
wording can be a bit confusing.
BartPE? Yeah - no problem using that here - but that is not really a
supported Microsoft product. Works great for me - I have used it and the
work of places like the Ultimate Windows Boot CD web site to make some
really nice utility CDs/DVDs.
The problem with your original post (and this one) is that you assume we
know what you are speaking of with very little information.
- You did not mention BartPE until later.
Knowing that..
- You mentioned that you were getting "this program cannot be run in DOS
mode or this program must be run under WIN 32" <- that tells me your CD is
not put together quite right. Either it was created with a bum boot image
or somehow you edited some file wrong with a hex editor or somehow just put
things in the wrong place.
I like to use Bart's Boot Image Extractor to get the boot image from the CD
I am using (integrating/upgrading/making into BartPE, etc.)
What you need to let us in on is WHAT you are trying to accomplish, how you
made this ISO, what is not happening that you expect to happen and what your
level of expertise is when it comes to doing such things.
