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Creating a Windows Installation disk

  • 22-11-2007 12:11pm
    #1
    mcirl2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭


    Hi,

    My windows installation disk is scratched and wont work. Cd drive wont even read it. However some time back I copied all the files over to my hard drive because the cd was getting faulty.

    How can I create another installation disk which will allow me to install windows? What software will allow me to do this?

    Any help would be great!

    Mike


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  • #2
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    mcirl2 wrote: »
    Hi,

    My windows installation disk is scratched and wont work. Cd drive wont even read it. However some time back I copied all the files over to my hard drive because the cd was getting faulty.

    How can I create another installation disk which will allow me to install windows? What software will allow me to do this?

    Any help would be great!

    Mike

    Win XP will allow you to do this. Just open the cd/dvd writer in explorer and drag and drop, then select 'write these files to disc option'.


  • #3
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Hal1 wrote: »
    Win XP will allow you to do this. Just open the cd/dvd writer in explorer and drag and drop, then select 'write these files to disc option'.

    It wouldn't be bootable though
    I'm afraid you'll need a windows xp or 2000 cd to extract the boot sector from using isobuster.
    http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp1_cd.htm - follow that guide from "In order to make the new CD bootable it's necessary to add the file ..."


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    www.nliteos.com

    It's normally used for creating a custom CD, but if you just point it at the folder where you copied the contents of the disk over, you can ask it to create a new bootable ISO with no options.


  • #5
    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Ah cool, didn't realise you could do that with just the contents of the cd with nlite... that program is constantly surprising me with useful little features


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