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to: John Beckett
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2004-12-30 08:14:06
subject: Re: my first experience with XP

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Thanks.  I'll check it out.

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Glenn M.


"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:41d35604.3228081{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news::
> > Yea, I had that problem with a slipstream XP install disk.  The
resulting
> > disk was not bootable.
>
> You need to do some funky stuff to:
> 1. Copy the boot sectors from an XP CD to a file.
> 2. Tell your burning software to write that file to the location for the
> boot sectors on the new CD. (i.e. tell it that you want to make a bootable
> CD and provide the file, then provide all the data you want on the CD).
>
> I have only done this a couple of times, so I am not sufficiently fluent
> to tell you what is actually needed. Try a site like the following:
> http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
>
> John
>

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