HP xp home recovery disks

[Rita G.]

I am trying to nlite a 7 disk set of HP xp home recovery disks with no success.

(nlite worked fine for my xp pro disk)

Is it possible to do this?

[Rita G.]

After burning a couple of iso's to cd's, the same thing keeps happening:

i put in cd and restart and then get white text on a black background moving down the screen and stopping at what appears to be a command prompt:

[DR-DOS] A:\>

I have no Idea what to enter.

[jaclaz]

Yes, that definitely is a (DR-DOS) prompt.

Over the years HP used several different ways to create "recovery disks", one cannot say what you have in your hands without more info.

Do the following, on your normally booted system insert one by one the disks in your drive, say, D:\ , open a command prompt and issue the following:

DIR /S D:>C:\CD01.DIR

repeat changing everytyme the 01 to 02, 03, etc.

Compress all the .DIR files into a .zip file and attach it here, maybe from what is on the disks we can say what you can do with them, most probably you will need to re-create a "standard" Xp Home source from the files on the disks, or from those on your HD, something like this:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381

before being able to use nlite.

jaclaz

[Rita G.]

thank you jaclaz,

will give it a try.