Virtual PC

[Iced^]

I am making a streamlined copy of XP and installed Virtual PC so i didn't have to re-install windows xp everytime i wanted to test something i'd added. I created an ISO with WinISO loading the boot.bin file so it would be a bootable CD/ISO. I then loaded my VPC selected "Capture Image" from the CD menu, but it would not boot from the ISO giving me the error "CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code: 4", am i creating the ISO wrong or doing something wrong in VPC? I searched the forums and found someone with a similar problem although the suggested solution did not work, please Help.

[Aaron]

Did you download the empty ISO files from the site? It's already bootable. What you did by loading a boot.bin into an already bootable ISO image probably messed it up.

Another alternative is to make an ISO of your original Windows XP CD and delete all the files in the ISO image and put in your own modified copy in there, it will remain bootable

[Iced^]

I didn't download the empty ISO files from the site, i take it they're on the unattended sub-site? Anyway thanks for your help.

[Aaron]

Yep, here's the link: http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/files/empty_xp_isos.zip

If it doesn't work, you can always try out the alternative I suggested, very clean way of doing it

[gui_m]

I had the exact same problem dude. I used UltraISO rather than WinISO to create the image and it worked fine...

hope that helps...