Slipstream Your Way to Safer, More Secure WinXP Systems

For this Recipe, we're going to use CDBurnerXP Pro 3 (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/download.php?latest), a freeware CD-burning application with support for creating and burning .iso files and bootable CDs.

Download, install and launch CDBurnerXP Pro 3. Once it opens, a screen with three options will be displayed. Select the first option; the one that begins "Create a new Data-CD/RW…" (as shown here):

Once the main screen of CDBurnerXP Pro 3 is displayed, go to Disc > Boot Options, which will open the Boot Settings window, as depicted below:

On the Boot Setting screen, first check the Make Disc Bootable box. Then click on the three dots (…) to navigate to the directory where you stored the Microsoft Corporation.img file you saved earlier with IsoBuster.

Now change the Emulations Type to "NoEmulation (NT/2000/XP boot Images)." Make sure the Load Segment is 7C0, and set the Sectors to 4. The Platform should be 80x86 PC. Finally, make sure that Disable ISO File Delimiters (;1) and Enforce ISO Level1 (8+3 char max.) are checked. Then click OK.

Go to the Disc dropdown menu again. This time, select Disc > Set ISOImage Labels, as depicted in this screen shot:

For Volume Label, enter the volume name of the original CD you used for the base OS files. For this example, the Volume Label is WXPCORP_EN. It is critical you use the volume label from your original CD.

The System Identify may be left blank, but the Volume Set is the same as your Volume Label. For both Publisher and Data Preparer, enter MICROSOFT_CORPORATION. One this is complete, click the Set Labels button.

From the main screen of CDBurnerXP Pro 3, go to the upper left pane and navigate to the directory you used to combine the base XP and SP2 files. For this example, it is D:\Slipstreaming\XP. The contents of the directory will be displayed in the upper right pane, as shown here:

Select all of the contents of the upper right pane, and drag and drop them into the lower right pane. The files will be added to the .iso compilation you are creating.

At this point, you have the option of either burning the bootable XP CD immediately, or creating an image file from the .iso file that can be burned later. For this Recipe, we're going to cover creating the bootable CD immediately. From the main screen, go to Disc > Write Disc, which will open the Write CD/DVD window. This is depicted here:

The only changes you'll need to make are: Checking the boxes next to "Mode 2XA instead of Mode 1 (CDR/W Only)"—and to "Finalize Disc (No Further Writing Possible)." After that, click "Write Disc."

One the burning process is complete, click "OK" and then click "Done" on CDBurnerXP Pro 3. Congratulations, you're now the proud owner of a bootable copy of Windows XP slipstreamed with Service Pack 2.