Creating a slip stream cd for Windows XP

Creating a slip stream cd for Windows XP

Hello Emma,

The problem you are encountering is common when in installing RAID drivers on Microsoft Window’s XP, when there is no floppy drive in the system. There are two solutions to this problem:

(a) A USB floppy drive can be attached, however the system BIOS USB emulation mode must be set to floppy.

(b) Create a bootable copy of the Microsoft Windows XP* setup disk bundled with the RAID drivers. This method is known as slipstreaming.

According to your question its clear you want to use the slipstream CD. Below is a standard procedure of creating a slipstream CD with Windows XP SP 2.

Requirements:

1. Download the relevant RAID drivers.
2. A CD copy of Windows XP. It must either be Home edition or Professional edition.
3. CD creation software with a CD burner. There are various CD creation software’s available.
4. There must be a free hard drive space of more than 1.5 GB available.
5. Download a Service Pack 2 install file for IT professionals from the Microsoft Website.

Procedure:

1. Create a pair of different folders to hold the Windows XP installation CD and Service Pack 2 data in it. The directories should be created at the root directory of the drive e. g. D:/XPCD and D:/SP2. Name the directories as XPCD and SP2.
2. Move the SP 2 file to the root directory of the drive where you have created the XPCD & SP2 folders.
3. Extract the Service Pack 2 into the SP2 directory created in step 1 above. To do this: Open Command prompt, Navigate to the root directory of the drive you are using for this procedure by typing the drive letter followed by a colon. e. g. D:/. Type the name of the service pack trailed by ‘-X’ and press enter. On the pop up window prompt, enter the location of the SP2 directory created earlier i. e. ‘D:/SP2’. Press OK.
4. Load the Windows XP install CD, copy all the files and folders in the CD to the XPCD that we created in step 1 above.
5. In this procedure we bundle the XP installation files with the SP 2 files. Open a command prompt, Navigate to the 'D:/SP2' directory, type ‘CD i386update’, hit enter, type ‘update /S:(drivename):XPCD’ and hit enter.
6. Extract the Windows XP boot image from the CD. This task is accomplished using ISObuster. (ISOBuster is available freely). Load the Win XP installation CD and run ISObuster. Navigate to the Win XP folder, right click on the Microsoft Corporation.IMG and choose extract. Extract the file to the XPCD folder we created.
7. To create the actual bootable CD use the CD creation software that is installed on your system.

Good Luck!

Jonah