Hello, I recently replaced the motherboard in my other computer and it requires sp2 to be installed for it to work..and it didn't.

I tried to make a disk with sp2 on it, but when i try to boot from it, it will start booting from the hard drive, without attempting to boot from the disk at all.

So, could anyone tell me how to make a bootable disk so i can install sp2?

thanks

Hello fatalwounds.

I just made myself a slipstreamed bootable disk for my XP PRO SP2 so that SP3 is included and I did it using this
visual guide and nLite

I'm assuming one should be able to use the same basic procedure to create a slightly different flavor.

Thanks, i slipstreamed SP2 into the installation..but it will just try to boot from the HD even if i select boot from DVD rom in the boot menu

Did you enter BIOS and set first boot device to CD/DVD rom put in disk save and exit?

Yes double check what JB said and just to recap when I made my disk it was a two stage process where first it did the slip streaming and then I had to go back and use the nLite function that makes the disk bootable.

My first effort didn't work either as I attempted to do it all in one shot by checking both boxes.

If you are certain you burned it correctly then the only other thing I can think of is I have encountered the odd machine that for whatever reason seems to not like the brand of CD I used and when I burn on a different brand it works fine.