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Alkaiser
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_ 		25. August 2006 @ 06:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hello. I'm trying to figure out how to install Windows XP Home Edition to a blank 80 GB HDD.

In the boot bios I selected my DVD drive as top priority so it boots that first when I restart my PC with the Windows disc in it.

I made this windows xp home disc myself with Nero (burn bootable image).

It keeps taking me to a DOS screen starting with the word Caldera DR-DOS and ending with [DR-DOS]A:\> (enter text).

But I cannot type anything at that point. I can't even exit that screen... It just sits there.

I have a Gateway computer by the way.

I extracted the files from the Windows XP Home.iso with PowerISO then burned them to a CD-R with Nero Express 6 > Data > Bootable Data Disc, added the files then burned...

I burned them to the disc as a floppy image. It says it's supposed to boot when Windows starts in DOS.

Funny thing is my disc only boots after I log on...

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?...untitledxj9.jpg

Please tell me what / how am I supposed to burn this CD iso so that it will boot at Windows startup into DOS like it's supposed to....
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Halen5150
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_ 		25. August 2006 @ 08:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's the thing; ISO's aren't meant to be extracted like zip or rar files.....

they're 'exact replicas' of a disc in an image format so; what you do is find a prog capable of writing iso to disc;)

Also; if ur burnin' to a CD-R why the HELL are you writing it as a floppy disc??

P.S. It might be even possible that the iso file is bad?-->that could be why when you start the disc it just 'sits there'
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Alkaiser
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_ 		25. August 2006 @ 09:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Nope. My images are good. I found the problem. You were right, I was burning them wrong.

I burned them to a CD-R with PowerISO and it works just like the real Windows XP Pro SP2 disc. /cheers XD
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