tedly Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 You may try adding a replacement bootsector to the ISO - one can be downloaded from the MSFN Unattended CD site.If it doesn't have a bootsector, it won't boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Read my post here:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381&st=18There could be the steps/files you are missing.....jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-I- Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 if you have a legit copy - why not just copy-disk (in nero), //* unless you want it to be slipstreamed first ofcaurce *\\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedly Posted March 20, 2006 Author Share Posted March 20, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted March 21, 2006 Share Posted March 21, 2006 Does the ISO have a bootsector? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedly Posted March 21, 2006 Author Share Posted March 21, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy8 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 As long as you covered the basics (such as making hidden and system files viewable in Folder Properties) when you copied it, you should theoretically be able to boot it. I ran into problems with Nero setting boot options, and occasionally with nLite's ISO creation.Validate the integrity of your source, extract its boot sector (using ISOBuster or similar), and use CDIMAGE to make your ISO. When I used these measures, XP Home only failed to boot when I used poor quality CD media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedly Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 ." (such as making hidden and system files viewable in Folder Properties)"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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy8 Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Understood, tedly. Folder Properties are most critical while copying Windows source from CD to local directory, prior to use by nLite. You copy only the files you can select. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedly Posted March 23, 2006 Author Share Posted March 23, 2006 Like I said, I let nlite do that for me as well, it's not done by a file copy via windows explorer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 What exactly do you mean by "not bootable"? It could be the following:- drive cannot read your disk: no boot- the disk is readable, but the bootsector is missing or it does not confirm to Bootable CD specifications: no boot- the bootsector is present but cannot load setupldr from i386: error message is usually displayedThis helps in solving the problem, so please provided the information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedly Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 Most likely missing a valid bootsector for whatever reason... this XP home CD is definitely a little different from the others.Download a bootsector from the Unattended MSFN site, add it to your ISO, burn, and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy8 Posted March 25, 2006 Share Posted March 25, 2006 I had the same result with nLite's older versions, when attempting to make a bootable ISO. Since then I preferred to extract the bootsector from each Windows source for reuse, and use CDIMAGE for ISO creation. Could be the makeiso.exe utility provided by nLite that is the cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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