> Hello,
> I am a student and my university has enrolled itself to some Microsoft
> program which give me the opportunity to have access to some of the
> Microsoft
> products.I took from my university original disks of Windows XP, Windows
> server 2003 and 2000, Longhorn and more OS.
> I did this by puting the original disk in my CD-ROM and then i just copied
> the whole disk to my hard disk.
> I installed Virtual PC and i tried to install some OS. I did this by
> coping
> from the hard disk the information of the OS to a CD-RW and CD-R disk.
> Then i
> order the Virtual PC to use the CD-ROM but i always receive a message -
> please insert boot media or boot device or it happens that it starts
> Caldera
> DOS and when i go to my disk using this dos and when i start setup it is
> wriiten that i can not start it from dos. I tried with the fiile winnt.exe
> but nothing happens. I had a success with Windows 2000 because in the
> instalation files there were some boot images that i used, but XP and
> Windows server 2003 there are not such files. So my problem is to boot? I
> will be happy if you can help me!
> Sorry for my English:)

> Ok, but i do not have any access to the original CDs, so i want to know how
> to install all this OS and the most important is to know how to boot to start
> the initial install? Booting is the problem

> Ok, but i do not have any access to the original CDs, so i want to know
> how
> to install all this OS and the most important is to know how to boot to
> start
> the initial install? Booting is the problem

> Apparently your copies of the CDs preserved the files but not the boot
> sector, so your CDs are not bootable.
>
> What you need is some kind of bootable diskette that includes CD-ROM
> support. One way to make this is to use Windows 98 to create a startup
> diskette. I think later versions of Windows can do something similar.
>
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