Creating a bootable CD from a non-bootable CD.

[TheCAD]

My brother lost his copy of XP pro. I made a backup and the backup is good except for the fact that its not bootable.

Is there any way I can make a working(bootable) version so he can reinstall XP?

I tried creating an image with Roxio and then burning it as a bootable disc...but obviously its not that simple.

[ambientZ]

google for how to slipstream sp2 into xp, it will include info on how to make a bootable cd from the result. You will be able to skip all the slipstream steps and go right to making it bootable.

You'll need the bootsector which some sites provide

[TheCAD]

I've only found one with a link to the bootsector and I didn't exactly follow what the directions meant.

If someone knows of a site that has directions(with the boot sector download) I'd appreciate it.

[Shotglass01]

Nevermind. Thank god for edit.

[Joe Average]

Copy the contents of the CD to a folder (I mean everything that's visible on the CD itself goes into that folder). Get nLite and use it to make a new bootable CD ISO, and that's it. Takes less than 2 minutes to do this once nLite has the files loaded. It'll create a new ISO and place the appropriate files to make the resulting ISO bootable, then you burn that ISO and wham, you're done.

[Shotglass01]

If you have a floppy drive around:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994