I downloaded ImgBurn and read the guide about how to Create a Bootable XP SP3 setup disc from an existing XP system and I thought I had successfully integrated the XP setup files and the WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU file using the command prompt on my XP laptop. However, when it came to building a bootable disc, I ran into great trouble!
Because when I started to build my disc on the XP laptop from which I had collected the files and ran the integrate command, I couldn't plug in the External DVD writer and the mouse because it only has two USB ports and as I don't get on with touchpads, I had to use one of those USB ports for my mouse. So I chose to extract the Boot Image to another location and the process lasted for about an hour and didn't even work!
So I decided to transfer my saved XP setup with SP3 already integrated to my main PC and try running ImgBurn from there. But I still ran into problems trying to get it to accept a location to which to extract/save the Boot Image file, as it just kept saying 'you cannot save .... to a drive you're trying to read'. This confused me because I hadn't selected the external drive, where the integrated XP setup files were and I had tried every other drive on my PC and still got the same error message
So I visited the Forum and found a post from a member having similar problems and the answer seemed to be to insert a disc (DVD) into the optical drive and select that as the extract/save to destination! I did that and ImgBurn did seem to burn the disc successfully. But when I restarted the laptop with the disc in the external drive, it came up with the message 'Initialising CD-ROM drive.....!!' but never got any further? So I'm wondering whether the disc I thought I had successfully created has all the required files on it? I mean, how do I tell if the Boot Image was successfully extracted/saved to it? Or is the disc name which ImgBurn gave it (XPSETUP) OK or should have been WXPVOL_EN for Windows to recognise it and boot from it?
