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The drive has nothing to do with it. This happens on ANY computer you try it on, and all other discs boot fine. There is no error, it just skips right through booting from cd. You can't even force it by not setting anything else in boot sequence BUT that. Hell, it doesn't even work if you have no other bootable devices plugged in. The disc is readable if you put it in your cd in windows. I don't know if the bootsector's missing. Like I said before, I do the exact same thing for all my other discs, Windows XP Pro Retail, Oem, VLK, Upgrade, Windows 2000, they ALL boot. Taking the exact same steps with an XP cd, and it does not boot.

Like I said, I let nlite do that for me as well, it's not done by a file copy via windows explorer.

. Hidden system files/folders have nothing to do with this as it's all done within the nLite program. I select the windows cd from the nlite software, pick a temp directory for the files, then create a bootable iso

Not really sure where I'd verify that. The fact is I did a very simple setup with nlite. No options, just creating a bootable iso. It worked for ALL my other discs, just not XP Home. Upon inspection of the image, it does not appear to be any different than the others.

I work as a tech at a local store, and my legit copies are sealed in the safe to be sold as retail copies. I'd prefer to have an image on my desktop in order to make copies whenever my copy gets damaged from over-use. And jaclaz, the link was not helpful to my problem. I'm trying to understand why everything except for XP Home works fine, and how to get my Home copy to boot.

I have a legit copy of XP Home OEM. I want to keep an image of this on my system so as to make cd's whenever I need it. I have done this for my Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro, and Windows XP Pro VLK CD's. All of these work fine, however my XP Home CD does not. I use Nero 6 to burn the image. I have the latest release of nLite, and I used it with no options, just created a bootable iso (just like all the other images). I've done the suggestions of trying it at a lower burn speed, and at Disc-at-Once; nothing works. Please help. Title Edited - Please follow new posting rules from now on. --Zxian