Creating Windows XP boot CD in 3 steps


STEP 1:

Create a folder in the hard drive (e.g) D:\XPCD. Now copy the content of the existing XP cd to this folder. The Windows XP SP2 executable file is an archive of the service pack2 files, so you can use winzip and extract SP2 files to another folder say D:\SP2. Now locate updater.exe under D:\SP2. This can be found inside the subfolder named 'update'. Go to the DOS command prompt and change your directory to this 'update' folder. Run the command "update/integrate:

" where " you saved the windows XP cd files to ("D:\XPCD" in our case). This will start integrating SP2 into the windows XP Installation files saved at D:\XPCD. You should get message box conformation that integeration was successfull. Now the D:\XPCD folder contains Windows XP installation files with SP2 integerated.

STEP 2:

Extracting the boot image from the existing Windows XP bootable CD is easy. You need to use software that can do this. Bart`s Boot image Extractor (BBIE) is a simple but useful utility and is available for download. Insert the windows XP CD into the CD drive, and go to the command prompt and change directory to the folder where BBIE is located. Run "bbie -v " e.g "bbie -v F" you should now find a file named 'image1.bin' being creating in th same folder from where bbie.exe was run. This file is the Windows XP Boot image.

STEP 3:

Insert a blank CD media into your CD Writer. Use burning software such as Nero to create your boot CD. Go to File>New, select 'Boot CD' and select the boot image file that you created in step 2. Make sure that emulation is set to 'No emulation,. Yhe boot segment is automatically filled in by Nero- all you need to do is set the number of loaded sectors to 4. Select Mode1 and ISO Level 2, from under the ISO tab. Enable all options under ' Relax ISO Restrictions', and use the ISO 9660 Character set. Under the Label tab, enter the same label name as that of the original CD. To find this, just insert the windows XP Installation CD into your CD-ROM drive and open Windows Explorer to see the name displayed against your CD drive. Click 'New' to open the File explorer browser, select all the XP Installation files with SP2 integerated (from D;\XPCD in our example) for writing to a new CD. Finally open the CD Write dialog Box, and under the 'Burn Tab', enable the Finalize CD option. Now, write the compilation to the blank CD.

Now we have successfully created a bootable Windows XP installation CD with SP2.
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