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My PC wont allow me to boot from CD for Windows installation?

Description : This problem has been going on for a while now and its really starting to bug me. Before the problem I could insert the XP CD and run a clean install of Windows but now it just gets stuck at the blue screen after you hit any key to boot from CD and it has checked your hardware configuiration. This same problem happens with anything I use to attempt to boot from a CD such as Norton Ghost Image CD or even Powerquest Drive Image CD, so it is apparant that my PC just wont boot from any CD. My computer has two drives one a DVD-RW and the other a CD-RW have tried booting from both and still no luck. Have tried swapping ram, graphics card, processor, hard drives, motherboard, removing additional PCI cards such as firewire 800 card, TV card, sound card and even modem but still no luck ! My main pc spec is as follows: MSI 865PE Platinum Edition Motherboard Intel 3.2ghz Northwood Processor Maxtor 80gb SATA 2GB DDR333 Ram Any advice would be appreciated as I have tried everthing Thanks for the responses so far. All the discs I have uded to boot from are mint with no scratches what so ever. In regards to the bios, my settings are already set to the DVD drive as first boot device, if you read my question again you will see that the problem starts after it begins to start booting from a CD.

Answer : Go into the BIOS page when the computer starts booting (either hold down DEL, or F1 or F2, depending on your computer) and set the boot sequence so your CD / DVD boots first, and your hard drive boots second. Then restart the computer with the CD in the drive.

How can I make a Windows XP Media Center installation CD?

Description : My computer did not come with an installation CDs for Windows XP Media Center. Instead the hard drive is partitioned and the installation files are on the D drive. I am trying to run the Windows System File Checker and it keeps asking for the CD and it does not give me the option to select the D drive. I tried to burn a CD, but it is 8.23 gigs. Is there a way I can create installation CDs from the files on my D drive or somewhere I can download a free image of Windows XP Media Center, service pack 3?

Answer : Go to the manufacturer of your PC web site and go into the support section and you should be able to find instructions on how to make an Install CD/DVD's for your model of computer.

How do I use Norton Ghost to tranfer the image from my old computer to a new one?

Description : So I built myself a new computer, not pre-made, and I passed on buying another OS since its unnecessary when I already have it installed on this old one. But I'm having a little trouble installing a new Windows XP image/transferring my old one to the new computer. At first I tried to duplicate the XP installation CD by burning an iso of it to a blank CD, because I've misplaced the original, but it didn't quite work. The new computer seems to have read it, but it brings up a command prompt that I don't know what to do with. I did set the BIOS to boot through the CDrom. Perhaps there's something I can type in the command prompt to make it continue? Anyway, I figured making an image of my old computer through Norton Ghost would create the proper file type to boot from. So how can I do it this way, and are there any other options?

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Want do Download WINDOWS XP ISO image?

Description : i want to install windows xp (preferably sp3) in my laptop but i don't have installation disks. from where i can download cd/dvd image of windows xp. by which i can burn that to a blank disk. please suggest me free download links.

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How to Install Windows XP From a Hard Disk?

Description : I write zeros to my drive and reinstall windows quite often to keep my drive clean, but I'm tired of being bottle-necked by my CD Drive. I have the ISO image for my Windows XP Pro installation, which i can use to make CDs with. What I want to know is: how can I write that image to a hard drive to help decrease the time it takes me to install windows, and decrease the chance of my CD being scratched and giving me problems. Does anyone know of a program that does this and how I might go about it? Thanks in Advance!! It's Possible I know people who've done it, I just don't know how myself. Someone from overclock.net just told me WintoFlash will work. You should know you're stuff a little better before answering

Answer : I format my external hard drive to be boot able, then create a folder for Windows and copy all the contents on the CD to that folder and install windows by booting up USB, then run setup on the external hard drive. I'm sure there may be better ways. This allows me to also have a directory for all the software I install and every thing is in one place, I don't have to change CD after CD to install everything. You probably could create a Windows slipstream and put it directly on the external hard drive and accomplish the same thing .For the first one you may need to install a CD boot image on the external hard drive so the computer will think it is a CD and not a Hard drive when you boot from USB. I don't know how using an image file itself would work. I would imagine you could use the program Ghost and make an self installing image of you hard drive, but this would not work if you used it on a different computer. Sorry I haven't been too much help.

Computer Hardware erroring out on OS installation?

Description : I would like to say I am a technician, but haven't come across this problem before. my friends computer was acting up and I took a look at it, he kept crashing with bluescreen of death etc.. and I went through all the hardware and it turned out that his power supply was dying for his comp would also randomly shut off or when you had a cd in the dvd-rom drive and try to start the computer it would crash once the computer tried to read the disc in the drive upon startup. I replaced the power supply and reinstalled windows and setup everything, after a few days he started getting bluescreen of death again, so I thought it must have been a glitch on the windows xp cd for I am a MSDN subscriber and have the windows xp CD Image from MSDN and used his old XP cdkey with it. I tried the cd once more, had a glitch in the xp installation on the part where it reboots for the first time after copying files to the hard drive and preparing for the GUI part of the installation. I then tried another xp cd that I downloaded from a torrent this time for I thought my MSDN one was glitched(the torrent was an official store cd copy with no cracks, just a retail disc) same issues. Finally I thought okay lets try vista... so I took my official vista 32bit cd and installed it, it worked the first time for installing, but when the computer went to boot into vista for the first time, it just rebooted. I then installed once again and this time there was an error that popped up during installation, i then tried installing again and it happened again, same error, and again... different error this time... so I ran a memtest86 to see if the ram was bad, ram checked OK, ran the check a couple times to make sure. I now believe that the motherboard or CPU itself is the cause of these errors happening. Im guessing when the old power supply was dying it probably shocked the parts, I know the power supply died while the comp was writing heavily to the hard drive, which I also thought the hard drive might be the issue but I don't believe it is really anymore. let me know what you guys think parts wise could be the issues?

Answer : From my experience,you're overlooking the obvious culprit, which would be the cd or dvd drive itself.I've had problems as you describe before when trying to install xp,switched out the cd drive and problem solved.You may not have gotten an error message when you installed vista, but that doesn't mean it installed correctly.I've had power supplies die before and they never affected any other hardware.You said the computer would crash when a cd was in the drive,I'd check the power cable and cable from the mobo to the cd or dvd drive and/or replace the drive.

How do we create bootable Windows XP from another bootable disc?

Description : Please help, I have windows XP installation disc and my friend asked me to create a bootable disc for him so that he can use it to make clean installation on his PC but I find it very difficult to burn one because I just copied all the files on the CD and burned it directly to a blank disc but later I realised the disc is not bootable. I learnt I have to make it like an image or iso but please am a newbie in computing so kindly take your time and explain to me clearly about the step to step used to create bootable iso image. Thanks and hope to expect great answers from.

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Booting windows on my hard disk from CD ?

Description : This is driving me crazy... here is the problem for some reason windows xp couldn't get it right and install the boot loader on my hard disk. so, now I have a windows installation on the hard disk but can't access it because there is no boot loader. I guess it's hopeless so I'm asking where can I find a bootable CD image (iso?) that can boot windows on my hard disk so I can include multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect in BOOT.ini on the CD and it boots the windows on my hard disk. copying NTLDR , BOOT.INI, NTDETECT.COM to a CD didn't work (the CD itself didn't boot) so, to conlcude, how can I boot windows on a partition on the hard disk from a CD ? note: no floppies please , don't have one :(

Answer : i would do it again ... boot into bios . load defaults, set to boot from cd first then boot from the install disk and delete partitions ..

How can i make a custom windows xp installation?

Description : ok, so i heard that u can make a ISO image from the current OS u got on right now... like if i got Windows XP Pro with SP2 and all the updates on my computer wit a working registration key, i can burn the whole OS in a cd kinda like a backup. but i want to know, can u do that, and take some of the programs that by default come already installed in windows? like for example, can i take off the Accesibility tools and make a ISO so when i install it again, it wont have that again?? im asking because i want to reinstall my OS, but i dont want to have everything installed like the accesibility stuff and the messenger and all that crap i dont need. also, i want it to come already installed with the programs i know that I WILL NEED. like antivirus and stuff... any program that can help me do that? thanks thanks, but i mean, i also want it to come wit some extra programs that dont come in it already.. like firefox and the antivirus

Answer : There is a program called 'Norton Ghost' that creates an exact image of your HDD for replication. I think the program is licensed but you can try www.downloads.com' for a free version. As far as intalling windows is concerned, as far as I remember it asks you if you want a typical or custom install and you can choose custom to customize it at the time of installation.

Windows xp error durion installation- setup could not copy file!!!?

Description : hello, i need argent help about my computer! i just bought a new pc about 2 weeks, it is running on microsoft windows 7 32 bit but i think my pc assembler just a pirated copy of windows 7 and activated it with some win 7 activator even i have paid the full price! now for some reason i want to install my old windows xp. the cd is not original but i have installed win xp by it in many pc like my office and my friends pc and it works fine! but now when i put the cd in my pc and boot from it and start installation on partition c (system partition) the setup completes formatting the partition and start copying new files but after 6% error comes up- windows could not copy file (and then some file name). there was a option to bypass it but then another same error comes up with some other file. plz help me! thanks in advance! (plz answer this ques also if you can- i jus upgraded to window 7. all my old softwares and drivers work fine, but when i tried to install my printer hp PSC 1410, after downloading the drivers from hp.com for win7, when it was installing it clears 3 steps and when it ask for connection to printer, i connected and then a fatal error comes! a window error massage also appeares, i check the details it says "device software drive unssuccfull installed" detail it mention is "no drives found" here are the images - fatal error windiw http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/46/hpinstallationfatalerro.png/

Answer : If you have extra CD Drive then use it to install OS.such error is clearly because either that cd is odd or CD-Drive lens is old and not reading data from the bad cd(old drives could not read data from scratched CDs).just replace the cd or cd Drive. Error in printer software installation. Download offline installer and install the software. if you already have this then clean the 'temp' folder before installation restart pc and rerun setup.(if you don't know the location of temp folder then see in the image ,its path is showed in your provided image).

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