Windows XP Custom Boot CD? Please read on.......?

Question

I need to create a custom boot cd that I can use after getting that dreaded "Blue Screen of Death" crash because I can't get back into Windows XP in any mode. Only by using the CD drive. I need something that boots similar to the Windows XP setup CD or BartPE but using a particular program (ie. Backup Utility). I tried creating an AutoRun CD but I can't get it to boot automatically except in Windows.
Again, I want to make this myself using other programs. In other words, I don't want to use the Windows XP setup CD or any other pre-made CDs unless it is a program that I can just create the CD by substituting my own application to boot up before Windows does since I wouldn't be able to get that far anyway after the Blue Screen. Also, I know to set the boot options to CD-ROM first, too.
Thanks.

Answer 1

nlite

http://www.nliteos.com/

Answer 2

Your idea will not work. You need to boot to the OS to gain access to the files, and restoring backups will not repair a blue screen failure. Why everyone thinks the only answer is to re-install from scratch I don't know. I have only ever had to do this 5 times in 30 years of support, each time to replace a failed hard drive. Boot from your OS cd, at the first prompt select install, at the second prompt select the R repair option. This re-instates the original files, then run windows updates. This will recover 99.9 % of blue screen errors, and does not affect data. Most blue screens are caused by driver or software making incorrect changes to a Windows file, the rest are often due to bad hardware. I have even had a batch of monitors that caused this on a new install.

Answer 3

Your Windows CD should be a boot CD or the one you created...but what I didn't read is that you went into the BIOS and made certain that you had changed the boot sequence to CD first.



Make certain that you change that first, then re-try.

Answer 4

I'd say try

http://www.bootdisk.com