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Bootable XP DVD above 4.7GB possible?


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Hi Neetu,

I used ImgBurn to create a bootable DVD and burnt it at speed 4. What I did was use the Build option inside ImgBurn and put all my installation apps in a folder called ROEINSTALL, so that all the apps are behind the I386 and OEM (driverpacks) folder. Then I created an Image with the build option in ImgBurn and I was good to go.... :)

Nero might work too, but I haven't tried that yet, since I thought I had problems, but the problems I had were because of the fact I burnt the DVD+DL at max speed. When burnt in ImgBurn at 4 speed the installation went just fine.. :D

Dreamline

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I am also having a 7GB win xp image but not succeeded in making it bootable.

Describe not bootable:

Can you boot DVD at all?

Do you get a error message? Which error message do you get?

Can you define your conditions?

Which XP do you use? Do you use a 32 bit or 64 bit XP?

Which layout do you use at DVD?

Which directories exist?

Why do you need a dual layer DVD?

Do you use a multi boot solution?

Do you add a lot of files?

Do you like to add a big file? A file greater than 4GB.

Do you use XP default boot sector?

Which boot sector file do you use?

Do you use a multi boot loader? like isolinux, grub4dos ...

Do you use winnt.sif [MassStorageDrivers] ?

A NT like boot CD use file system ISO9660.

Do you add non windows files?

Do you require a addional extenstion or file system?

There are different solutions for different conditions.

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As for: Boot sector file name: bootsect.bin.

Boot sector file beside win51* tag files.

\bootsect.bin

\WIN51IP

\WIN51IP.SP3

\I386

Get new binaries. Add cygwin1.dll and addional dlls.

http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank/

Copy mkISO_NT_sort.cmd to the same directory.

The sort list is created dynamically:

Txtsetup.sif is parsed. Textmode boot files are sorted first.

Sort order is more or less as setup read the files.

DVD drive makes shorter track seek, the file acess time is reduced,

Hence the installation part is faster.

NT based boot CD are supported like NT4,2000,XP,2003; 32bit and 64bit

You may add files greater 4GB.

Use a directory for big files. Ntdetect.com dislike big files in root.

Usage example:

If your XP source files D:\XP_DVD, then run

mkiso_NT_sort.cmd D:\XP_DVD

mkISO_NT_sort.zip

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