Creating a bootable CD from a. ISO file is not the same as just copying the. ISO file to a blank CD. You have to use software that understands how to burn a. The BurnToCD. You can also use your own CD burning software as long as your software is capable of creating a bootable CD from a.
ISO file. Most modern CD burning programs can create bootable CDs from an. ISO image. When booting on the Hiren's CD you will see a menu of options. Create your own Boot CD to face the unexpected with confidence. Requirements include a working CD drive even though you cannot boot from it , a floppy drive to which you have unrestricted access and can be set as the first boot device and six blank, formatted disks.
Windows XP Home Startup Disk relies on a rather time consuming routine that includes extracting and copying the files on all six disks. User attention is required, because the process is interactive. Once a disk is full, you are prompted to insert another one, until all the data is transferred onto the devices.
You may want to label the disks, since they need to be inserted in the correct order during the setup process. Advanced Windows Unattended Installation 2. Harry Potter and Windows XP offers you such free and beneficial icons from the icon artists. Windows xp professional free. If your manufacturer has not provided you with any device drivers, or if you have lost the drivers CD or DVD that the vendor has provided you, all is not lost.
You can try using a device driver backup program to extract the existing drivers on your currently running system. You can get a device driver backup program from the Free Device Driver Backup and Extraction Utilities page on thefreecountry. In such cases, you need the manufacturers' textmode drivers which the driver backup utility will not recreate.
You can of course use other software, but since it is difficult for me to write a tutorial that covers every possible burning software around, this guide will assume that you are using ImgBurn. Since the software is available free of charge, I doubt that this choice will pose significant hardship for anyone. The easiest way to get this is to download the file wxp In fact, you should do this now. Download the file and save it on your desktop. You will need the file later. Update : the site mentioned in the previous paragraph is no longer available, and I don't know any reliable alternative locations that provide it.
I would also strongly suggest that you make a backup image of your entire system before you reinstall it. By entire system, I mean the whole system and not just your data. This is important in case there is some glitch in your installation or some fault in the setup CD that you create, resulting in an unusable system. In such a situation, you will be able to restore your working system from your backup image. If you are not sure what a backup image is, or think that I'm only talking about saving your documents to another location, or worse, think that "image" refers to some sort of picture, please do not carry on with this procedure.
If you are tinkering with your system, you owe it to yourself and your sanity to get a good hard disk image backup program. It is possible that it does not work - for example, if your vendor has deleted some essential file in the I folder which we will need , your installation may well fail at some crucial point after it has formatted your hard disk! It is also possible that my procedure will not work on your system, or that I made some mistake in describing it here.
So do it all at your own risk. And make sure you have an up-to-date backup of your system that you know works. Actually, you can name it anything you want and put it anywhere you like, but for ease of explanation, the remainder of the steps below will assume that you have created the XPSETUP folder in the root of drive C:. Notice that I said "copy", not "move". It is important to work from a copy of the I directory so that if you make mistakes, you can simply go back and start all over again.
If you move the directory or drag and drop it, and you make a mistake, your mistake will be permanent. It may take a while for the copy operation to complete, but it's safer this way. If you're not sure how to copy, follow the following procedure: Highlight the I folder using Windows Explorer.
Right-click the folder and select "Copy". The folder should be empty at the moment. Right click the empty space in the window and click "Paste". A very lengthy copy procedure will take place. To verify that you have copied the folder and not moved it, return to the top of C: and check that the I folder is still there and that the original files in that folder are still there.
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