lammer's question (how to boot CD)

butter

butter

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I've got two windows XP installation CDs:

1. WinXP Home. Boots and installs perfectly, but needs activation which i lost and don't have anymore.

2. WinXP Pro. Installs perfectly, activation-friendly, but wouldn't boot.

So every time i reinstall my OS i have to install Win #1, then out of its shell install Win #2. Cause Win #2 DOESN'T BOOT!! and it sucks so bad. Such a pain to double install it everytime.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Here's what i've tried already:

Burned a bootable data-CD with Nero. Result: boots in DOS-mode. then i get into the directory with Win #2, type setup.exe. And.. it still wouldn't work, saying that this file can be started from WIN32 only.
 
sniperchang said:
Did you have both OS installed? Why not just reformat and install XP Pro, that should work.
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that's exactly what i need. the problem is tho, if i format the drive, then i will need to boot from a CD. and the one with WinXP Pro DOESN'T BOOT!! :eek:

and i don't know how to make it
 
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