Creating slipstreamed CD of XP *RESOLVED*

[Jaepheth]

Ok, so I'm following Paul Thurrott's step by step directions to create a slipstreamed XP disk with SP2. And was able to follow the instructions exactly until step 5.

My problem is, I'm trying to do this from the Windows 7 beta, and the only CD burning software I've been able to install is Infrarecorder.

I made one disk already, but when booting to the CD it gives an "NTLDR.dll is missing" error.

Can anyone guess what went wrong? I don't want to do the exact same thing again because I only have 1 blank CD left, and I'd rather not have to go buy another pack right now.

The first time I did it, I allowed more than 8 directories of path depth because it seemed like it was going to skip several files that had too long a path name. All other options were left to default.


The reason I'm doing this is that I want to install Win XP alongside Windows 7 beta. but both my hard drives are greater than the 131GB limit of the WinXP sp1 installer, but more importantly both hard drives contain data I am unable to backup at this time. Windows' setup is not recognizing the partition I set aside for it using GParted (20 GB FAT32, I thought even if it doesn't recognize the other partition, it'd be able to see a separate fat32 partition) and I thought it may be because the other partition on the Hard drive is a later version of NTFS. Hence, why I'm thinking an upgraded windows installer would help.

Any suggestions?

 

[darkenedsoul]

Sounds like you didn't put the boot.img onto it. I used that and it worked fine for me but it was from XP, not Windows 7. I'm not even going to mess with it seeing it's still beta and not a ton of support in there still. Did you extract the boot.img from the XP disc as well? That's needed to boot it up.

Mike

 

[Jaepheth]

Well, the first CD (that failed) was burned on an XP home edition PC. And yes, I pulled the "Microsoft Corporation.img" file from the CD using IsoBuster.

 

[MustISO]

If you want to easily slipstream an XP CD use Nlite.

 

[Jaepheth]

Thanks,

I was able to setup a virtual machine so I could test various disk images without having to burn them. Turns out there was a problem with the way InfraRecorder was creating the disk images. nLite made a working image first time out. That is a very nice tool indeed.