RevTurk Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Hi, sorry if this is a common question I did search and read guides but all mention having the original WinXP disk which I don't. I need to run a repair install on a computer (running windows XP Pro SP3) I have lost the original disk but had copied them to my hard drive to make a slipstreamed version so I have all the files I'm just having a problem making the disk bootable. All the guides I've seen assume you have the disk which is where I'm having problems. I've made the disk and it works in windows but I can't boot from it. I've tried getting the boot image from the files saved on the hard drive but it says "You can't save the boot image file to the same place you're trying to read!" I found some WindowsXP pro boot disks online but they're split out for floppies and imgburn doesn't recognise them. To be honest I don't know what I'm looking for so haven't a hope of finding it so I'm turning to the experts where can I get this file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianymaty Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 How you slipstream, from cmd with /integrate? nLite or RVM Integrator can build a Bootable ISO from files with internal bootimage. http://www.nliteos.com/ http://integrator.siginetsoftware.com/index.php?download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIGHTNING UK! Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Here you go, extracted from XP SP3. I 18:13:34 Operation Started! I 18:13:34 Source Drive: V:\ I 18:13:34 Boot Image File: C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\BootImage.ima I 18:13:34 Creating Boot Image... I 18:13:34 Original Emulation Type: None (Custom) I 18:13:34 Original Developer ID: Microsoft Corporation I 18:13:34 Original Load Segment: 07C0 I 18:13:34 Original Sectors To Load: 4 I 18:13:34 Wrote 2,048 bytes to boot image file. I 18:13:34 Operation Successfully Completed! BootImage.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevTurk Posted December 9, 2010 Author Share Posted December 9, 2010 Cheers for the help that nliteos program did the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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