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I am trying to install Windows XP on a old laptop (Compaq Presario 700) with a stored verion of XP that I burned to an ISO.

The copy of XP is legitimate but it won't boot to it. I am able to boot to the Crap Recover CD that is basically just DOS, and to a copy of "Ultimate Boot CD v5" that I downloaded and created from the same computer and burner that the XP cd was made from.

Everything boots except for this XP CD. Is there a way to tell if it's bootable?

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Use a tool like UltraISO. It will indicate that the CD is bootable.

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It sounds like it's not bootable but you could use IsoBuster or one of many similar programs to check the ISO file or the actual disk.

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