HOW DO I CREATE BOOT DISKS FOR WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL 64 BIT?

[jeffsharmon]

HOW DO I CREATE BOOT DISKS FOR WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL 64 BIT?

I cant boot from my cd. I need boot disks.

Please email me thanks

[nitroshift]

If you enter the BIOS you can set the CD-ROM as primary boot device. Otherwise you can boot to a DOS prompt from any boot floppy then move to the i386 folder on your cd and type winnt.exe. That will start the setup. Just a question though, how come you can't boot off CD-ROM?

[prx984]

this might help you. http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm scroll down till you see the "Windows XP 6 disk set". hope that helps if starting setup from DOS doesnt work.

[jeffsharmon]

Hi Its me again. It still didnt work. I got further than last time but still didnt get to install it. Every time I type winnt it says this program cannot install in ms-dos. or somthing like that. I dont remember the exact wording. I need help. can someone help? thanks

Oh And I tried the http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm those are for windows xp Professional not 64 bit thanks

[prx984]

the boot disks should be on the windows xp cd. ill see if i can find where they are located on my cd.

[jeffsharmon]

Hi Did you look for the boot disks on your cd? thanks

[prx984]

yup, i did. i cant seem to find it. i know the boot disc was on 2000 install cd, but i guess under XP they have removed it because they figure everyone can install from the cd.

is it the disc that wont boot or the computer?

if its the disc, you can make a bootable cd using nLite. if its the computer, ill be very surprised because it should have the option to boot from the cd-rom on a 64bit motherboard.

[passionsurf]

I have the same problem as Jeff. I can boot from a 32bit XP CD but not from a 64bit CD. And I have PentiumD 945 processor.

It seems if there were an x64 bootdisk set, then it would work.

[cluberti]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... It could be that we removed the ability to create boot disks to boot to x64 Windows.

[passionsurf]

Could the issue be in my BIOS or have something to do with my motherboard?

[cluberti]

No, because x64 doesn't allow boot diskettes anymore. It isn't going to work - you either use the recovery console or WinPE to fix your x64 install, and YOU HAVE TO INSTALL FROM CD on the initial x64 installl - booting with floppies is no longer supported in x64 Windows editions.

[cyprod]

seems to me that it might be very likely that if his computer doesn't have the ability to boot from a CD, then it probably doesn't support 64 bit extensions anyway.

[passionsurf]

I guess the problem was the way I burned the CD. I tried it again by buring the "disc image" (instead of all the files separately) and the CD boots up fine. It's curious, because all the same files are on the CD and one works, but the other doesn't.

[jondercik]

The reason it worked when your burned the image is because the image contains all the files that make the cd bootable. They dont appear as files when looking at the image.

[os2fan2]

Try using something like one of these programs. They will boot cdroms even when there is no support for booting cdroms, or you dont want to flip to that part.

http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm look for 'bcdl'

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

They're all tiny proggies, and make only one diskette. Once booted, you can pop out the diskette.

I have used it on Windows NT4, NT5, OS/2, etc. Saves fiddling with the bios in any case.

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