Need Help Reinstalling Windows

[Sublaaron]

Hi Everybody

I am really impressed with this program. I am trying to teach myself how to reinstall a customized windows. I ran the program and removed some windows components I didn't want, mainly Internet Explorer. I went through all the different operations on nlite and was careful to leave in everything that seemed crucial. When I finished I burned the zip ISO to a rewritable CD. It didn't work. Then I tried uncompressing the file with 7zip and burning that onto a rewritable CD and that hasn't worked either. If I was using the normal unaltered Windows re installation disk I am able to enter a run CD menu by pressing F12 before Windows starts. However with both of my attempts of creating a nlite CD I select the option of booting of the disk and the computer seems to ignore that and just loads up Windows like normal. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am curious if the re-writable CD could be causing the problem or if I didn't do something correctly or need to add some more files to my boot able ISO CD.

Please help.

[Ponch]

If you have one big ISO file on your CD, then there is your mistake. ISO is a CD image and needs to be burned as an image, not "put on the cd" as a file. Depending on the program you use to burn the cd, you need to find the menu that says "burn image to CD" or burn "iso to cd".

[jperelman]

I suspect part of the problem is not to try to use CD-RW's for your boot disk. Some CD burners will work with a CD-R just fine, but won't necessarily boot correctly with a CD-RW, even one burned by the same burner. Just my 2 cents worth...:-)

[jaclaz]

I may add that a good idea is to ALWAYS burn bootable CD's or CDRW's at LOWEST possible speed.

Just to make sure you are not making the error of just copying a .iso file to the CD, use IMGBURN:

http://www.imgburn.com/

using the "write" feature:

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=screenshots#isowrite

NOT the "build" one.

jaclaz

[Ponch]

... old thread.