XP Pro "Official" Bootup Disks Problem


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I downloaded from Microsoft's website, the Boot up disk maker, WinXP_EN_PRO_BF.EXE.

I made the 6 disks. Every thing went well until after the formating option(FAT or NTFS) in which I selected NTFS and it gave me a message saying

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"The following value in the .SIF file used by setup is corrupted or missing:

Value 0 on the line in section [sourceDisksFiles]with key "SP1.cab."

Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press F3."

This is a clean install, with no OSes installed yet. Last time I used this disk in Win2k GUI, and it worked at installing.

Now, I do not want to reinstall Winnt because this is the first reason I wanted to reinstall, not to keep C:/winnt there.

I am using a custom cd(Slipstreamed XP Pro SP1)

Any ideas how I can install this cleanly?

Thanks in advance.

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Do you know if the CD is configured to do an unattended install? Your problem may be that you need the SP1 version of the boot floppies, anyway what I can suggest is to try using this boot floppy instead of the microsoft ones, http://www.madboot.com I never use the microsoft boot floppies for my clean install of winxp on a formatted drive.

  Gus_Valentine said:
You can search for the SP1 boot floppies at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads Search for this file: winxpsp1_en_pro_bf.exe

or

WinXPSP1a_EN_PRO_BF.exe

Well, aparently, it says "Cannot find medctroc.inf"

I press skip, and it says "Cannot find spra040b.dll"

I press skip, it pops the same error about spra040.b.dll.

what can I do? Can I like, install win98 with bootup disks? If so, How(would that be easier to install and then upgrade) ?

I have the cd, it doesnt boot up by itself though.

Mad boot's Boot disks are the ones made by microsoft, they just distribute the finished product, instead of the one file used to make these disks.

Thanks.l

Neither do I boot from CD, I just use a normal DOS boot floppy, as my HD is still foramtted with FAT32. And I've actually copied my entire Windows XP CD to an HD partition (drive D:) so I could slipstream SP1 into it. The way I do my clean install of XP is boot with a normal DOS floppy, then format drive C: then go into the i386 folder (wether the XP files are on the CD or D: partition) and run winnt.exe. Of course, I have the full version of windows xp, not the upgrade version. I don't recognize the missing files you mention and can't tell why you're getting that. I am assuming you have tried the SP1 version of the Microsoft XP boot floppies.

  Gus_Valentine said:
You can search for the SP1 boot floppies at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads Search for this file: winxpsp1_en_pro_bf.exe

or

WinXPSP1a_EN_PRO_BF.exe

:yes: i think this is the answer.i have taken the app which can make bootable floopies for sp1,and recive no errors.

  Gus_Valentine said:
Neither do I boot from CD, I just use a normal DOS boot floppy, as my HD is still foramtted with FAT32. And I've actually copied my entire Windows XP CD to an HD partition (drive D:) so I could slipstream SP1 into it. The way I do my clean install of XP is boot with a normal DOS floppy, then format drive C: then go into the i386 folder (wether the XP files are on the CD or D: partition) and run winnt.exe. Of course, I have the full version of windows xp, not the upgrade version. I don't recognize the missing files you mention and can't tell why you're getting that. I am assuming you have tried the SP1 version of the Microsoft XP boot floppies.

I did try it. I have the full CD not a upgrade too.

Anyways. I had to make this longer than it needs to by Installing Win 98 first, then upgrading again. Which took me 4 hours. thanks. Resolved.

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