Hello all!

I've been tearing my hair out over this one. I am trying to repair a Dell
laptop that has XP sp3 on it. Because the owner sent it to me from Florida
(I live in Maine), I did not get the Install CD. So I cleverly thought to
use a copy of Windows XP Home that I have to do a repair. Since the Dell
laptop has a SATA hard drive, the older XP CD can't find it. So, since I've
read many times about slipstreaming service packs, I decided to try it.
After many attempts to do it right, I have a folder on my hard drive with
the updated XP sp3 all ready to roll!

My problem, I think, is that I can't make a bootable CD that starts XP setup
from boot time. I have tried including the Microsoft corporation.img file
from the XP original cd as the image file (from the Paul Thurrott's Super
site (http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp) and
just get a Code 4 error(?) when using the cd to boot the laptop. I turned
the slipstream folder into an .iso file and burned it to a cd - No operating
system found.

I have been doing the "bootable" burn with Roxio Creator DE, which I am
thinking might be my problem. Nero has been suggested by the above mentioned
site, but I don't wish to buy it and Nero always seems to invade my
computers too deeply. Am I being too paranoid?

Does anyone have any ideas, or programs that would burn this CD correctly?
Thank you for your time and thought on this.

Best, Will

Will Stephenson
Acadia Technologies Inc
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