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)
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)
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)
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.
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.
Integrate / slipstream Windows XP SP3 in Windows setup or installation CD / Media | Choto Cheeta Online said
am May 10 2008 @ 7:05 pm
[...] 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 said
am May 11 2008 @ 8:28 am
Nice post Buddy.
can you tell me:
1) how to integrate SP1 in vista?
2) how make a Vista DVD bootable?
Choto Cheeta said
am May 11 2008 @ 6:23 pm
Hey gary4gar,
welcome to my site, and
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)
gaurish aka gary4gar said
am May 11 2008 @ 8:34 pm
I have two OEM copies of vista. Please tell me where i can download the ISO.
Thanks.
[Offtopic}
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gaurish aka gary4gar said
am May 16 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Did you forget?
where to download VISTA ISO?
pratik said
am May 20 2008 @ 1:32 pm
which version of nero is that?
I dont find those options in Nero 7..!
cybersupam said
am September 2 2008 @ 9:19 pm
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.