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installing WinXP via CD

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KoolDrew

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I burnt XP to a CD because I used nLITE to remove things and modify the installation. I boot from the burnt CD fine and I can format the drive but once the XP installation begins I get an error that says something about renductary check and says to clean the CD or something. I ahve come to the conclusion that it may be my burner since it has been acting up lately and may have caused problems in the burning process.

Now since I cannot install from the CD my question is is there anyway I could get the files off the CD and put them on my harddrive and install off the harddrive. This way I will not get this error as it will be installing from the harddrive and not the CD. How exactly would I do this? Right now I am using the Mandrake Live CD I had laying around. So intructions on how to do it in Mandrake Linux will help.
 
Hmm. You could try this:

1) Make a FAT32 partition, copy CD contents to \XPCD
2) Make a bootable floppy - 98SE works, or get an image from bootdisk.com
3) Boot from the floppy, then do \XPCD\winnt.exe /b
4) Convert to NTFS post-install

That's the 2K install method - I don't know if it works. Better idea would be to just install vanilla XP and live with it. What exactly were you trying to strip out with nLite?

- M4H
 
Ya but how exactly would I install XP without booting from the CD? Can't I boot from a floppy and have it install the OS off my harddrive? I am asking how to do that.

EDIT: Sorry. As I was typing this MercenaryForHire
replied. I will read his post now.
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Hmm. You could try this:

1) Make a FAT32 partition, copy CD contents to \XPCD
2) Make a bootable floppy - 98SE works, or get an image from bootdisk.com
3) Boot from the floppy, then do \XPCD\winnt.exe /b
4) Convert to NTFS post-install

That's the 2K install method - I don't know if it works. Better idea would be to just install vanilla XP and live with it. What exactly were you trying to strip out with nLite?

- M4H
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I don't know exactly how to make a partision within linux. What is vanilla XP? I was just removing alot of stuff I do not use with nLite. I also slipstreamed SP2 and did a few other things and after doing all that I really want to install the modified version but I cannot install off of the burnt CD.
 
as stated,it worked for me,as i slipstreamed XP and the cd would not run from boot /reburned at 4X and good to go 🙂
 
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