Bootable Issue: drive? media? fingers?

[zapp22]

Friends

I've read the posts here instructing on make-boot [advanced tab] and I'm obviously goofing it somehow.

What I am trying to do is get the SP3 update to winxp onto a bootable CD/DVD. my writer is an asus dvd+rw. I've used your Herculean program for darn near everything but never really needed to force something to be bootable that was not already an .iso image.

 

So, I extracted [using winrar] the executable [self-unzip] directly from Microsoft, which essentially is a new i386 folder. what I don't know is, in the normal circumstance of unzipping and immediately running something that gets the job done, is the boot image for SP3 actually in this directory or is it intentionally 'doctored' in some way? when I build a disc choosing this as the boot image it fails.

 

i think i understand the rest about adding the entire folder to the disc buildup. i made a folder exactly as described in your instructions and dropped the new i386 folder in there along with some drivers that I need to extract & load once I'm underway.

 

could someone pls tell me where I'm getting offtrack?

and, since I'll be starting from a cold powerup, it may not matter which boot img I feed to ImgBurn, so if I need to pick something from another directory, can do that to.

the system I'm actually using as the mule to do this buildup is a win7 64-bit Ultimate setup. everything works well but I wanted to mention that.

 

thx

zapp

 

p.s.: Edit: the result of that exercise [log attached] was an endless short boot-loop. Boot, hit the DVD rom, reboot.

ImgBurn.log

Edited July 1, 2010 by zapp22

[LIGHTNING UK!]

So you've downloaded the admin installation for SP3 and want it on a bootable disc?

 

It doesn't work like that.

 

All you can do is integrate SP3 into a copy of earlier 'complete' set of XP installation files.

 

i.e. you take your original/bootable XP SP0, SP1 or SP2 disc, copy everything off it and into a folder, then integrate SP3 into it and rebuild your bootable disc from there.

 

That's exactly what my guide explains how to do.

 

The actual 'bootable' bit is something you read off the original CD via special means (the 'extract boot image' bit on the 'bootable disc' tab) and then reuse for the new disc.