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Forum: UltraISO Topic: newbie - having problems started by: chadbryant5 Posted by chadbryant5 on Dec. 30 2005,09:04
I'm new to all of this and just bought Ultra ISO hoping to burn a copy of my WinXP Pro copy residing on my hard drive. I need to make a bootable win xp pro installation. I chose to extract the boot file from my original xp pro cd. I then chose to load boot file to load that bif file. I then dragged and dropped the xp files from my hard drive to the top pane in Ultra ISO and it read the files. I made an ISO file which I burned using Nero 5.5. When I went to boot from this CD, I got an error that it could not boot from the CD, Error Code 4 and something about a floppy drive before that message but went away too fast for me to read.Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Chad Posted by chadbryant5 on Dec. 30 2005,09:11
I just tried again and this time when I tried to boot from the CD it acted like it was going to boot from the CD. I got the boot from CD option, I hit enter, I got a message press any key to boot from CD so I started pressing keys and it ignored my request and went to boot from the hard drive.Please help!!!! Posted by xoben on Dec. 30 2005,09:13
Suggestions:1) If you want to create a bootable CD for installing Windows XP, all files on the original CD should be added to the image area 2) If you want to create a bootable DVD to restore the windows installed on hard disk, please use Acronis TrueImage or Norton Ghost to image it first, then create a bootable DVD to restore it later. Posted by chadbryant5 on Dec. 30 2005,09:22
Thanks. I copied all the files, I'm pretty sure, from my XP Pro CD to the hard drive. I added all those files to the image area to be included in the iso file. I loaded the bif file with the boot image made from the XP CD. I saved the iso file. I then burned that iso file to CD using Nero. I tried to burn using UltraISO but it said my Sony burner could not be detected or something like that. Nero found it fine. It is just now when I go to another PC to boot from that CD, I get these problems I mentioned. So I think I've done what you've suggested...any ideas?Thanks! Posted by xoben on Dec. 30 2005,09:34
Is your original XP CD bootable?Please choose 'File'->'Open CD/DVD' to open it and see if the status is 'Bootable CD/DVD'. If yes, you can 'Save As' or press F8 to make a bootable ISO from your original CD. If no, you can try it this way: 1) Download the attached w2ksect.bin 2) Choose 'File'->'New'->'Bootable CD/DVD' from main menu, and choose w2ksect.bin as boot file 3) Select all files and folders on the orginal XP CD, drag and drop it to the image area PS: There should be a I386 folder. 4) Save to an ISO and test it Posted by chadbryant5 on Dec. 30 2005,10:19
Ok, thanks. I'm at work now and will try your suggestions tonight. Thank you for your help.
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