[dba-Tech] Bootable CD for WinXP?

Thanks Arthur, I will check into that, too.  BTW, see my response to 
Helmut for the full story.  I learned there is a known issue with Intel 
SpeedStep - which causes Setup to hang!!!!!

Stay safe - I hope the tropical storms are not too rough on you.

Tina

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> There is also an article on TechRepublic that gives instructions how to
> create a bootable XP memory stick, if that is useful to you.
>
> Arthur
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> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina Norris
> Fields
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:20 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Bootable CD for WinXP?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to bring back to life a little Gateway laptop that somehow no
> longer boots to Windows XP.  Here's what little I know of the history of
> its going bad:  It was last used to play a game called Roller Coaster
> Tycoon (which had been played on that machine many times before), then
> nobody used it for about a week.  At that time it would no longer boot.
>
> When I got a look at it, it was trying to run setup, and hung at the
> same spot every time the machine was powered on.  Absolutely no response
> to anything.  The only way to get out of the frozen screen was to power
> off.  So, I tried the system recovery trick.  The recovery runs and
> displays the message screen that the system has been successfully
> recovered.  WinXP appears to try to start, then switches to WinXP Setup
> with "please wait" and the hourglass, and hangs there.  Tried booting to
> Safe Mode, got the message that Setup cannot run in Safe Mode.
>
> Tried the full system recovery, the one that scratches everything and
> starts over.  Again, appeared to fully recover, began the setup process
> anew.  I did all this about nine times.  There were two places the
> process was likely to hang - 1) at the point where Setup is installing
> devices, would get about halfway along the progress bar and hang - 2) if
> it made it through the installing of devices, it got to performing final
> tasks Register Components, about a third of the way on the progress bar
> and hang.  A couple of times, it did the "one or more of your disks may
> have errors on it" and checked for errors, never finding any.  But,
> oddly enough it was checking disk D:
>
> In desperation, I took my bootable Win98 install disk and - after making
> sure the boot sequence would check the CD first - put it in and
> restarted the computer, thinking I could at least install Win98.  This
> resulted ultimately in the message that there was no hard disk present.
> Looking in the BIOS, under the Standard tab I find Pri Master [IDE HDD],
> Sec Master [CD/DVD], under the Boot tab I find 1st Boot Device [CD/DVD],
> 2nd Boot Device [FDD], and 3rd Boot Device [IDE HDD].
>
> I have an emergency WinXP startup floppy diskette for my machine, so I
> thought maybe I could copy it onto a CD and have an emergency WinXP
> startup CD.  But, that does not seem to work.  Can anybody tell me how
> to make a bootable (not Autorun) CD so I can at least have some portion
> of a system alive for looking around in that machine?
>
> Oh, of course, before you ask - no she does not have any idea where her
> original disks are that came with the machine.  Of course not.  As I
> consider the life this little machine has had, I can't help wondering if
> it's been dropped or something and the C: drive MBR is destroyed - and
> whether there's any point in trying anything more with this poor little
> laptop.
>
> TIA for any advice.
>
> Tina
>
>
>
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