Making downloaded MSDN XP bootable

[Clara]

Hi All,

I am trying to make a bootable CD from MSDN XP Home disks.
Some of these disks are not part of the physical distribution so they have
to be downloaded.
These downloadables come in varying .img, .iso, and .exe formats. None of
them seem to be bootable.

I thought I could just copy the files to an .iso image with WinISO, then
pull the boot data from a similar disk (XP Home, same service pack).

This doesn't work.
WinMerge and other diff utilities tell me that every file on the disks are
the same (when mounted as virtual drives), but they give a "cannot boot
from CD, error 4" message when I try to use them.

The only way I could get it to work was to take a working bootable .iso
from MSDN, hollow out all the files, and replace them with the downloaded
files.
Is this the only way?


-Clara

 

[Ronald]

Hi All,

I am trying to make a bootable CD from MSDN XP Home disks.

DiskS ?

Some of these disks are not part of the physical distribution so they have
to be downloaded.
These downloadables come in varying .img, .iso, and .exe formats. None of
them seem to be bootable.

Where do you get those from?
All iso files from MSDN should be bootable.

I thought I could just copy the files to an .iso image with WinISO, then
pull the boot data from a similar disk (XP Home, same service pack).

This doesn't work.
WinMerge and other diff utilities tell me that every file on the disks are
the same (when mounted as virtual drives), but they give a "cannot boot
from CD, error 4" message when I try to use them.

The only way I could get it to work was to take a working bootable .iso
from MSDN, hollow out all the files, and replace them with the downloaded
files.

There are more ways, but baicly the one you describe works ok (and not much
slower than the other methods).
Stiil not sure what you mean with ".. the downloaded files."

Have a nice day!

 

[Guest]

I have found Bart Lagerweij to be the boot disk master. He has various
utilities and instructions about making boot disks of all sorts.

Here is a link to his instructions on making a windows xp cd bootable if you
do not have, or know how to extract the original cd boot files:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#wxp

This is especially usefull when you have an original xp disk and want to
"slipstream" a service pack onto a bootable cd.

 

[Bill]

You need to "Burn a CD From A Image" NOT burn the image to a cd.

 

[Ronald]

http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm

Have a nice day!

You need to "Burn a CD From A Image" NOT burn the image to a cd.

Here some info "how to" :

http://iso.snoekonline.com/iso.htm

Have a nice day!

 

[Michael Stevens]

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Hi All,

I am trying to make a bootable CD from MSDN XP Home disks.
Some of these disks are not part of the physical distribution so they
have to be downloaded.
These downloadables come in varying .img, .iso, and .exe formats.
None of them seem to be bootable.

I thought I could just copy the files to an .iso image with WinISO,
then pull the boot data from a similar disk (XP Home, same service
pack).

This doesn't work.
WinMerge and other diff utilities tell me that every file on the
disks are the same (when mounted as virtual drives), but they give a
"cannot boot from CD, error 4" message when I try to use them.

The only way I could get it to work was to take a working bootable
.iso from MSDN, hollow out all the files, and replace them with the
downloaded files.
Is this the only way?


-Clara

All the MSDN XP images downloaded from the MSDN library are bootable. Use a
third party burning application or the XP burning utility with a Alex
Feinman's plug in.
See the link below.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/software_tools.htm
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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP
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http://www.michaelstevenstech.com
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