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So from microsoft home page i have downloaded an .img file containing windows xp.

i have burned the img file a DVD-R Disk.

besides this i have created an additional drive (called it Win XP) that is suppose to contain my windows xp installation (i have windows 7. at the moment)

Now i want my computer to boot from disk and have therefore in the bios selected Boot from cd drive.

However when i try to boot from the disk, it fails and i am forced to boot windows 7 normally.

I know the information is limited but does anyone know why this is happening?

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There are plenty of reasons that might render a CD/DVD unbootable.Some of them are listed here.

In your case, I hope ,you might have burned the image file itself to the DVD-R instead of Burning a bootable ISO image , which might render the DVD-R unbootable.

You can find here a step by step guide to burning an ISO File to a Disc.

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