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Hi folks-
I was supplied by my computer support group with an XP Pro CD, to
convert my laptop from Win2000 to WinXP. My company is large and we
have a volume license for XP; the CD itself was burned for me by our IT
group.
The problem is that the CD isn't bootable. I know that normally, XP CDs
are, but something was messed up when this one was made, apparently.
(My computer is set to boot from CD before the HD, and works fine with
every other bootable CD I have, so it's not the computer that's at
fault.)
How would I go about making an "XP install CD" that boots the right way?
I make bootable CDs all the time (I make a CD and put Drive Image and a
compressed copy of my system partition on it as part of my backup
strategy, using Nero), but the XP CD needs more than just "DOS" from
Win98 to kick it off. Attempts to run the 16 bit bootstrap installer
from DOS mode failed, eventually.
I've downloaded the actual boot floppies from WinXP (bootdisk.com) but
have never been successful trying to make a real, live WinXP bootable CD
to kick off installations.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Now, this is really a curiosity more than an urgent need, as I wound up
using a Win2000 partition to launch the 32-bit XP installer and I'm
running from XP as I write this, but the original problem of the non-
bootable CD annoys me. I don't like unsolved mysteries.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sincerely,
Marc
I was supplied by my computer support group with an XP Pro CD, to
convert my laptop from Win2000 to WinXP. My company is large and we
have a volume license for XP; the CD itself was burned for me by our IT
group.
The problem is that the CD isn't bootable. I know that normally, XP CDs
are, but something was messed up when this one was made, apparently.
(My computer is set to boot from CD before the HD, and works fine with
every other bootable CD I have, so it's not the computer that's at
fault.)
How would I go about making an "XP install CD" that boots the right way?
I make bootable CDs all the time (I make a CD and put Drive Image and a
compressed copy of my system partition on it as part of my backup
strategy, using Nero), but the XP CD needs more than just "DOS" from
Win98 to kick it off. Attempts to run the 16 bit bootstrap installer
from DOS mode failed, eventually.
I've downloaded the actual boot floppies from WinXP (bootdisk.com) but
have never been successful trying to make a real, live WinXP bootable CD
to kick off installations.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Now, this is really a curiosity more than an urgent need, as I wound up
using a Win2000 partition to launch the 32-bit XP installer and I'm
running from XP as I write this, but the original problem of the non-
bootable CD annoys me. I don't like unsolved mysteries.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Sincerely,
Marc
