Comments on: Upgrade a Windows XP Recovery CD to a full installation one

By: submachine0

submachine0 — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:26:56 +0000

say i do this with my recovery cd, but on a friend’s pc. once i install to my pc, will i need the SERIAL or KEY or something? the problem is that i don’t have any numbers, and my current pc is fried.

or do i just call MS and speak to them? are the steps described in this tutorial legitimate as far as MS is concerned, in my particular scenario? and if i do need to contact them, will they even speak to me regarding XP or is support for it over with?

By: Naeem

Naeem — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:48:51 +0000

I have used it for Windiws XP. its really amazing. I wonder can I use same software/steps for Windows Vista?

Waiting for reply……

Best,
Naeem

By: Arnel

Arnel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:11:40 +0000

You need to rename the file to UPPERCASE (USBEHCI.SYS or USBEHCI.SY_, and other drivers needed by txtsetup of xp, they are enumerated below while loading the drivers, ex. NT File System Driver (ntfs.sys) just rename them all to uppercase, most are already capitalized) then it should work!

By: me

me — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:55:17 +0000

your question is not very clear. if you just want to reinstall the windows media center, why don’t you just download the program and install it?

I am talking about reinsallying windows xp the entire system, this method worked for me.

By: travis

travis — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:40:43 +0000

will this work for windows xp media center edition 2005

By: me

me — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:28:18 +0000

wow, thanks! i have this installation cd, but it is not bootable. i tried so many different ways, and i even tried linux, hoping that it will let me run this cd, but it didn’t work.

i finally found your page, i was able to convert that cd to a bootable Cd, so i was able to reinstall the entire windows system, excellent!

thanks! ps: that iso builder doesn’t work with windows vista when i tried it.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:12:08 +0000

Hi
I tried this and it seemed to be working until it came up with an error when installing XP, “the file usbehci.sys is corrupted” anyone know why this happened? I followed the instructions correctly.

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By: keith

keith — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:43:54 +0000

hey i have a question when i hit start, it says do you want to replace the i386 folder. am i supposed to?? will that mess up operation of windows??

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:14:56 +0000

How big is your i386 folder on your hardrive ? I think you must be doing something wrong but I have troubles finding out what..

You select the right i386 folder on your hard drive ? not the one that is in the folder xp, right ?

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:29:49 +0000

How big is the recovery folder when you copy it from cd to your hard drive ? I see that you mentioned reinstallation cd not recovery cd, do you think that it is the same ?

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:38:24 +0000

Did you try burning it on a dvd instead ? Did you analyze the folders and check which ones are the biggest ?

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:53:25 +0000

Andrew, sure you can do that manually by clicking on the … next to the white line in (3). Browse to the i386 dir and select it.

You have to copy the recovery cd to disk because this is where the new iso will be created from. All other files, like updates, will be integrated there.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:38:11 +0000

Thanks very much for this tutorial. I ran into a problem when I tried this, however. When I clicked “Search through hard drive automatically,” the search stopped after a second and I got an “Error: 9999: script error” message, then the program closed. Can I point the program to the I386 folder in C\WINDOWS manually instead? I was also wondering why you have to copy the recovery CD into a temp folder? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

By: thunder7

thunder7 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:23:53 +0000

May have to do this to a DVD and also add my most used programs as well.
Pictures,other things I use on a daily basis.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:22:21 +0000

Oh, I’d like to add that you can customize the installation beyond what I have written here. You may integrate the xp key and all the settings that show up when you install the operating system. (you can even add user accounts, drivers and applications)

Means less work for you.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:18:56 +0000

Luke I did try it with a XP pro CD that I had. Think it was from Dell but not sure right now. It should work with most, if not all, OEM CDs.

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:48:02 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Will this work with any OEM version? Which OEM CD’s have you tried it with?

By: thunder7

thunder7 — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:25:20 +0000

Sweet!. Been looking for this for along long time!.