How to burn / write a bootable Windows XP installation CD ROM

Once you have successfully slipstreamed a service pack under Windows XP installation source, the next question which comes to your mind is how do you burn / write those installation files under a boot-able CD ROM so that you may boot with it and install your copy of Windows XP. This bellow article would try to provide a step by step guide on How to burn / write a bootable Windows XP installation CD ROM.

Prerequisite

  • A PC with CD-RW drive
  • One 700 MB CD-R (blank) media
  • Windows OS
  • Nero burning ROM
  • Complete Windows XP installation Files
  • Windows XP Boot image

How do your create a boot-able CD Media ?

Please start the Nero burning rom application and select CD-ROM (Boot) as what you wish to burn and please provide the path of Windows XP Boot image (you may download it from here, or use Bart’s Boot Image Extractor)

Nero Start with Burning ROM as CD-ROM (Boot)

In the advance option, please make sure you select Kind of Emulation as No Emulation, and Boot Message should be as Microsoft Corporation where as the value of Number of load sectors is suppose to be 4. Rest all should stay default.

Now please click the ISO TAB on top of the window and under which, please change the option File Name Lenth (ISO) from default to Max. of 31 Chars (Level 2)

Mero Application settings

Next, please proceed to Label tab and provide label as WinXP_SP3 (it can be anything) and please click NEW button located bellow of the Window.

Now please browse to the folder which contains the Windows XP installation files, and just drag and drop them from browsing window to burning window of Nero Burning rom application (refer to the screenshot bellow)

Add files to Nero burning application window

Click Burn which is located in middle of the tool bar to open the final burning window. Please re-verify all tabs to make sure whether all settings are as per specification or not.

Burning ROM Window of Nero

If you kind every settings are just as described here, then you may proceed and click burn to start burning the CD as a Boot-able Windows XP Installation Media.

Nero Burning ROM is burning a Boot-able Windows installation media

Choto Cheeta on May 10, 2008 | Filed Under Hardware, Software, Windows

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Integrate / slipstream Windows XP SP3 in Windows setup or installation CD / Media | Choto Cheeta Online  on May 10th, 2008

[...] After the successful integration, the installation source would now become at around 634MB. You may now Delete the SP3 folder of F: drive and can burn the F:CD folder as a boot-able Windows XP installation CD. [...]

Gaurish Sharma aka gary4gar  on May 11th, 2008

Nice post Buddy.

can you tell me:
1) how to integrate SP1 in vista?
2) how make a Vista DVD bootable?

Choto Cheeta  on May 11th, 2008

Hey gary4gar,

welcome to my site, and :D surprised to see you here in my blog..

I am sorry to say but Windows Vista SP1 installation file and Windows Vista installation source it self doesn’t have the /integrate switch support so unfortunately one cant integrate it !!!

How ever Microsoft them self have released Windows Vista installation DVD with SP1 which one may obtain by from Microsoft free of cost (given that u already own a Vista Copy) :D

gaurish aka gary4gar  on May 11th, 2008

I have two OEM copies of vista. Please tell me where i can download the ISO.

Thanks.

[Offtopic}
Well, in case you didn’t knew i am regular reader of your site. via RSS feeds.

gaurish aka gary4gar  on May 16th, 2008

Did you forget?
where to download VISTA ISO?

pratik  on May 20th, 2008

which version of nero is that?

I dont find those options in Nero 7..!

cybersupam  on September 2nd, 2008

Excellent tutorial article here…this is the only things I dint know about computer/windows – the most important. For so long we 4 friends have been trying to burn windows installation files to bootable CD-R but we dint know and burnt with Nero data. Now all the problem is gone. Thanks a lot to the one who posted this precious article.

rahul  on December 13th, 2008

great man…thanks..

Anindya  on February 22nd, 2009

i have a bootable xp cd.
i want to insert a file of 10 MB size in this CD and yet want to make the XP CD bootable.
How should i proceed.

anindya56@gmail.com

abhishek nayak  on April 6th, 2009

please send me…

abhishek nayak  on April 6th, 2009

thank u…

Dragos  on July 6th, 2009

In the Windows XP disc i don’t have the components folder.WHY?

Choto Cheeta  on July 9th, 2009

Dragos :

In the Windows XP disc i don’t have the components folder.WHY?

What type of Installation Disc do you have ? Is it from any hardware vendor or OEM or Retail ?

Thanks.

Patrikse  on July 22nd, 2009

Thank you for taking time to share your skill with us,
sharing is caring

Love U Buddy
:rose 4 U

Josh Lomax  on August 16th, 2009

Can I Do This Using A Different Program,Other Than Nero?

Pankaj G  on January 23rd, 2010

thankyou

eml  on January 27th, 2010

WOW!!! Nero is the worst program I’ve ever installed… I have a great computer and it took ages to install the fucking cdburning program.. lol.. what a crappy programming..

anand  on June 12th, 2010

thanks a lot for this precious tutorial…. it worked perfectly…. bye… tc

rEyn^^  on July 8th, 2010

LOL! i really thought b4 i could jst copy it and put it on the cd… guess i wasted 2 cd :( tnx a lot dude for the info! really helps

Asanka Siriwardena  on November 5th, 2010

Thanks dude, it really helps. simple and clear. keep it up the good work !

lubo  on December 5th, 2010

how is it possible, it does not work for me ?

“…Boot image (you may download it from here, or use Bart’s Boot Image Extractor)”

in this section Nero asks me to put *.IMA file, while no BBIE contains that kind of file.

thanks

bitsebites  on February 17th, 2011

you are my hero lol! good material and well explained.

you won a friend :D

Altfire  on March 27th, 2011

Do you follow the same steps to make a bootable copy of windows 7?

Majid  on April 19th, 2011

Thanks alot. it really really helped me alooooottttt…

Machamba  on July 19th, 2011

Cheers! You are a great man

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