It would be a good idea to test your bootable CD on a computer that is working. Use a new CD and this free and easy program to burn your ISO file and create your bootable CD (do not install UniBlue or the Ask Toolbar - ever!): The bootable ISO image file you need to download is called: You can make a bootable Recovery Console CD by downloading an ISO file and burning it to a CD. This is not the same as any recovery disks that might have come a store bought system. If you have no bootable XP media (or are not sure what you have) create a bootable XP Recovery Console CD and be sure. If you're like most home computer users and don't actually have a Windows XP CD, the following advice from Jose Ibarra (now posting in the Answers forums under another name) is for you:
