jeffsharmon Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsharmon Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 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? thanksOh And I tried the http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm those are for windows xp Professional not 64 bit thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 the boot disks should be on the windows xp cd. ill see if i can find where they are located on my cd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffsharmon Posted September 1, 2006 Author Share Posted September 1, 2006 Hi Did you look for the boot disks on your cd? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prx984 Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passionsurf Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passionsurf Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Could the issue be in my BIOS or have something to do with my motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyprod Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passionsurf Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jondercik Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
os2fan2 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 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.W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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