installing XP from cdr at work

[Bryce]

Lately, when I put boxes together using MSI motherboards, I can't boot from
an XP cd-r. We have to go get the original and it will boot from that. I've
tried various different makes of cd-rom players, but I can only boot from
the oringinal disk.

Up until now we've always just burnt a copy and given it to whomever needed
to install it and the IT guy would take care of the licensing thing.

Any reason this is happening?

Is it a motherboard issue?

I heard that some Dell cd-rom drives cannot boot from a cd-r bootable disk,
but that it needs the orginal.

There is no Dell issues here however as these boxes are all generically put
together.

Thanks for any info on this.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Lately, when I put boxes together using MSI motherboards, I can't
boot from an XP cd-r. We have to go get the original and it will boot
from that. I've tried various different makes of cd-rom players, but
I can only boot from the oringinal disk.

Up until now we've always just burnt a copy and given it to whomever
needed to install it and the IT guy would take care of the licensing
thing.

Any reason this is happening?

Is it a motherboard issue?

I heard that some Dell cd-rom drives cannot boot from a cd-r bootable
disk, but that it needs the orginal.

There is no Dell issues here however as these boxes are all
generically put together.

Thanks for any info on this.

Sounds like you have a bad CD.. Make your own updated CD and see if that
helps:

http://unattended.msfn.org/

 

[Visitor]

CD-R's work fine, as long as the copy is correct. In fact, XP is
specifically *designed* not to care whether it's a copy or the original.
(This allows "slipstreaming" patches onto a new cd.)

So either the cd burner has a problem reading the original disk, or making
the copy.

Have you tried other brands of media?

 

[Bryce]

I"ll give these all a shot.

Thanks.

CD-R's work fine, as long as the copy is correct. In fact, XP is
specifically *designed* not to care whether it's a copy or the original.
(This allows "slipstreaming" patches onto a new cd.)

So either the cd burner has a problem reading the original disk, or making
the copy.

Have you tried other brands of media?