OptiPlex Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 Reconstructing a Windows XP CDROM I am not responsible for any f-ups that occur. If it does occur, post for help. You blame me, I'll stalk you. Most parts copied off Steven Bink?s guide, just a FYI. OK. If you are one of those poor folks with only a recovery partition (this is why you should buy Del:ninja:a: ) and you want to build a regular OEM Windows XP CDROM this is what you do.Step 1 ? locate useable setup files First of all, locate an I386 folder on the hard drive. It should look something like thno files are expanded): If it looks like thall files are expanded): Then cannot rebuild an XP CD. Sorry. If your machine has all the files expanded and you have access to the recovery partition, do the full recovery option. As far as I know most OEMs don?t do imaging as the recovery (and if they do they restore setup files, such as IBM) and regular Windows XP setup ends up running in unattended mode anyways. You should end up with a regular I386 folder somewhere on the drive. If you still don?t htough lucklucStep 2 ? rebuild the file/folder structureucture Before you slipstream any service packs I recommend rebuilding the XP folder structure. Grab a copy of Microsoft?s Windows XP SP2 CD (AFAIK it?s free so grab a copy) and do the following: Insert Windows XP SP2 CDROM. It should look like this: Now copy the entire I386 folder onto a folder, say C:\XPCDSP2. I?m going to use H:\WINXPSP2 so substitute when necessary. Copy from the XP SP2 CD the following folders to the XP CD DOTNETFX SUPPORT VALUEADDORT VALUEADD It now should look like this: Do this: Open up XPSP2.EXE with WinRAR or any tool that can view inside self-extracting EXEs. Go to i386\setuptxt folder. Copy the GIF file on to the empty docs folder. Now your XP CD build location should look something like this. At this stage your XP CD is still not complete. You also need these AUTORUN.INF WIN51 WIN51IPORUN.INF WIN51 WIN51IP Put them in the root of the XP CD build location, such as C:\XPCDBUILD. http://blaise.us/upStep 5 ? burn the CD (use Google)buStep 6 ? boot from CD and make sure setup works NOTE: Also try running setup via WINNT.EXE (DOS) and WINNT32.EXE (Win32) to make sure setup via those methods work as well.hose methods work as well. Shazam!!!!!!!!!111111 FILES.RAR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veiva Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 THank you OptiPlex! I'm going to try this when I get the CDs... But I wait for someone else to try it. :shifty: :bounce: :D :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futb0l Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 Nice guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaViD_BRaNDoN Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 Thumbs up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsquirle Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 (edited) The CD should be fine this way, but if I have read this correctly you won't be able to boot with it. You need to burn a boot file on your cd. I used this file to make the cd bootable: xpboot.bin (2kb) To burn the CD, I suggest using Nero Or if you want to create an ISO, I suggest UltraISO. EDIT 1: Try always to test your CD before you format your system!! I've once created such a cd and during the setup of windows I found out some files from the I386 directory weren't there. (could be an error from the user, or from the manufacturer, who knows?) Edited September 18, 2004 by bsquirle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veiva Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 How would you test it? Would I try Bochs x86 (even though it'll be reeeeaallllll slow)? Or what else? I have nowhere to test it on my computer. :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stezo2k Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 How would you test it? Would I try Bochs x86 (even though it'll be reeeeaallllll slow)? Or what else? I have nowhere to test it on my computer. :ermm: virtual pc should do the job nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veiva Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 So would Bochs? :ermm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsquirle Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 You could use bochs, if you're familiar with that program. But you could also use a trail edition of virtual machine / vmware. (I tested it using vmware and it wasn't that slow.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veiva Posted September 18, 2004 Share Posted September 18, 2004 Hey, you added something OptiPlex. :laugh: I am not responsible for any f-ups that occur. If it does occur, post for help. You blame me, I'll stalk you. And thanks about the VMWare thing. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptiPlex Posted September 19, 2004 Author Share Posted September 19, 2004 Oh yes ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bili_The_Axe Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Ok, This seemed to work ok but the files are larger than my CD. Not sure why. I followed the guide just as stated. My new folder contains 6551 files, 98 folders, sze 867 MB I386 - 6346 files , 71 Folders, sze 626 MB cmpnets - 89 files, 4 folders, sze 27.2 MB Dotnetfx - 34 files, 0 folders, sze 39.7 MB Support - 19 files, 2 folders, sze 161 MB Valueadd - 55 files, 15 folders, sze 10.1 MB Doc - 1 file, 0 folders, sze 32.0 KB Anyone know what can be deleted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaychou Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 i cant seem to download the attached files from the first post can someone reupload them? thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Nice guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musikfreek Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 hey.. i try to slipstream, and just after its done, this pops up.. check attachment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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