[X4U] Boot Camp - help with making a bootable Windows disc

[Brett Conlon]

G'day all,

I'm still trying to get Windows installed onto a partition on my  
MBPro....

After having ridiculously slow results with downloading the bit  
torrent "WINXP with SP2" file and giving up, I've been having a go at  
trying to build my own Windows XP bootable CD with Service Pack 2 -  
but I'm having troubles. I printed off the instruction page from one  
of the slipstreaming links Christopher recommended and have been  
trying to follow it:

http://www.technipages.com/how-to-slipstream-windows-xp-service-pack-2.html

As explained in my previous post, I have a WinXP CD with SP1 built-in.  
According to the Boot Camp docs and you guys I need it to have SP2  
built-in. I have since successfully slipstreamed the SP2 into a folder  
copy of the Windows XP installer disc (on my old PC's c drive). As  
instructed in the technote, I downloaded the "Microsoft  
Corporation.img" file from the MS website (apparently this file is  
used to make the CD a bootable disc).

I then used Nero 6 (v6.6.1.5a) to burn a bootable CD of the  
slipstreamed WinXP copy but my Nero 6 didn't have any of the manual  
settings the technote told me Nero 6 should have, in fact I couldn't  
find the specific "Nero Burning ROM 6" application. Instead I had a  
more GUI main interface that only gave me the "Bootable CD" option  
that had lots less options than the technote showed and didn't allow  
me to choose the downloaded "Microsoft Corporation.img" file prior to  
burning. Instead I was given 2 options: 1) select a bootable floppy  
disk in drive A or 2) use Nero's built-in bootable ROMs and simply  
choose a language (English). I chose the latter coz I didn't have a  
bootable floppy.

But when I booted my Mac off the burned CD I got a buncha disgnostics  
messages and a "No NTFS volumes found, exiting..." message followed by  
a DOS prompt that I didn't have the ability to input into.

Initially I thought my MBPro's FAT32 partition wasn't being recognised  
so I used Leopard's "Boot Camp Assistant" to rebuild a new Windows  
partition but that made no difference. Suspecting the Nero burn was  
the culprit I tried booting directly off my original Windows XP disc  
and it booted up fine. I aborted the install and tried making another  
burn in Nero.

This time I asked my neighbour (Java Script programmer) for his help.  
He was stumped also but suggested we format a floppy disc (choosing  
the bootable disc option) and use Nero to choose it as the bootable  
image (as in option 1 above) instead of using Nero's built-in ROMs  
(option 2). This time when booting off the disc on my Mac we received  
less diagnostics messages and a speedy DOS prompt appeared that we had  
control over but we couldn't do anything with it.

So I'm so stuck for a solution right now.

Basically I have a WindowsXP folder with Service Pack 2 integrated  
into it. I have the downloaded boot .img from the MS site and a CD  
ready for burning. How do I achieve this end result???

Your help is most appreciated!!!

Cheers,

Cojcolds