Tom J
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Right, I made a backup of windows xp on my laptop coz I always manage to lose the CD. AS usual i did so i just made a copy of the disk. I can get into MSDOS via a windows 98 bootable cd and i have formatted c: but once in when i put my xp cd and try to run setup it says that it can't be run in msdos. any ideas? i've tried booting from the XP but it says boot record not found.
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sponj
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boot from cd?
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Tom J
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i've tried booting from the XP but it says boot record not found.
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pow
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Download the Windows XP ISO again and put it on a bootable CD... there will be an option to make it bootable 
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sponj
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pow's got what i was tryin to say  im just sh*t lol
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Tom J
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Download the Windows XP ISO again and put it on a bootable CD... there will be an option to make it bootable
tried that, it asks for a bootable image so i used BOOTFIX.BIN from in the i386 file on the ISO, when i booted it said press return to boot but didnt do anything Theres another file in there called SETUPLDR.BIN but it can only use one image for the boot
[Edited on 06-11-2007 by Tom J]
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Deadude
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when ur burning it try burning at a slower speed when ur copying quite a lot of files it sometimes fucks up
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Ian
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Get a proper bootable CD and boot to it. You don't need to mess about with DOS prompts and the like if you can do this.
If its not working make sure it's burned as bootable and your boot sequence in the BIOS is correct.
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Tom J
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think i've sorted it, found this tutorial and it seems to be working, just doing setup now http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297
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