Help with WINXP Home on ISO

[LouiCypher]

I recently purchased Windows xp home from a friend of mine and it's on a burnt cd in ISO form. I don't really know what ISO is and need some help installing it. I want to first of all delete what I have on my hard drive which has winxp home aswell and then I'd like to install the new home edition on a clean drive. Can I do so with this ISO format? Thanks in advance for the help.

[Telexen]

It's stilll an ISO file on the CD? or the CD was made from an ISO image?

If it's the one file, you'll need to copy it to your hard drive and burn a CD from the image...

else just boot to the CD (make sure your first boot device is set to CDROM) and follow instructions from there.

[LouiCypher]

I'm sorry, you'll have to forgive me... I'm a total newbie at stuff like this. I believe it's still an iso file on the cd. When I run it, a dos window pops up then disappears.

"you'll need to copy it to your hard drive and burn a CD from the image..."

I'm not sure what you mean.

"else just boot to the CD (make sure your first boot device is set to CDROM) and follow instructions from there."

Do I have to clear my hard drive before I do that, or does it do a clean install on its own?

Nevermind that last part. How do I change the first boot?

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by LouiCypher
I believe it's still an iso file on the cd

Copy the iso file to the hard drive. Burn the iso image (onto a CD) as an image in Nero. Run the setup on the newly created CD.

[Siliconjunkie]

Just so you know, based on "I recently purchased Windows xp home from a friend of mine and it's on a burnt cd in ISO form." you bought illegal software. We wary of this.

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LouiCypher > What you`re asking for here is illegal, because your winXP is a copy not an original one.
Get an original version of winXP and you will have no problem installing it.

Telexen & ShawnD1> Do not provide any help or guide for an illegally obtained software!!
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