Failed Burn of OS Copy

[Black_Koga]

Good day all,

Years ago when I bought Windows XP Pro I made a copy of the disk by simply opening the copied disk file, selecting all, copied and burned to a disk for safe keeping. Now that I have moved three times since then I can not find the original disk, but I have a hard CD copy and a copy on my external hard drive. For some reason I can not use the copied disk to boot up for an OS re-install. I have tried to burn a new copy with no success, I get the impression that there are missing MS-DOS boot files that are used by the bios to load the OS. Can someone please help me figure out how to burn a bootable OS disk that the DVD/CD-ROM and bios will recognize and load the OS?

 

[Bean007]

If you can access the files on the disk then just make a bootable USB drive and install from there, if your mobo will support it. You can use Rufus to make this happen. There's also other programs that allow you to make a USB OS install. Microsoft has one and even HP has one. See if that helps you.

Here is the link to Rufus. http://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

[Black_Koga]

If you can access the files on the disk then just make a bootable USB drive and install from there, if your mobo will support it. You can use Rufus to make this happen. There's also other programs that allow you to make a USB OS install. Microsoft has one and even HP has one. See if that helps you.

Here is the link to Rufus. http://rufus.akeo.ie/

How can I find out if my motherboard/BIOS will support a USB bootable operation? Secondly I would still like to create a bootable CD for save keeping. Thanks for the valuable information though! 😉

 

[Bean007]

If you can access the files on the disk then just make a bootable USB drive and install from there, if your mobo will support it. You can use Rufus to make this happen. There's also other programs that allow you to make a USB OS install. Microsoft has one and even HP has one. See if that helps you.

Here is the link to Rufus. http://rufus.akeo.ie/

How can I find out if my motherboard/BIOS will support a USB bootable operation? Secondly I would still like to create a bootable CD for save keeping. Thanks for the valuable information though! 😉

You should just put a USB stick in and either go into the Bios and then look at the bootable drives where it shows the order in which it looks at or some Bios's allow you to push a button without going into the Bios and selecting the boot device you want to boot 1st but doesn't change the settings in Bios. It's like a temp selection. I think it's F9 but I could be wrong and it might be different with each company and there mobo. Usually when you restart or turn on your computer there's a selection at the bottom that will give you the choice of either entering into the Bios or selecting a Boot Device. You have to look quickly as there's not a lot of time to see it but it's at the very bottom of the screen on the left. Make sure your Flash Drive is at least formated and can be readable.

I think as far as your bootable CD/DVD goes you might have to try to Slipstream your OS. I've never used it before but do know people that have. Great thing about Slipstreaming your OS is that for older OS's that required you to install a lot of drivers that you can include these into your Slipstreamed OS and even include the key without really doing anything. All the drivers can be added into it to where you just let it finish the install and you're done. For newer OS's like Windows 8 drivers are almost not needed for the install but perhaps for updated ones that have fixes it's still needed. When you Slipstream your OS it's for that system with that MOBO and Chipset.

Here's the site of one program. http://www.nliteos.com/

I can't give you any help on how to Slipstream as I've never done it before but there's lots of guides I'm sure on YouTube.