installing an ISO image from an MS download site

I was given a key gen to a download site from my college's business
department for Windows XP Pro sp2. I can load XP directly by clicking the key
gen and downloading the ISO file. This launches a window that downloads the
file, unpacks it, and then installs it.

What I have done is save the ISO to CD so that when I upgrade my mother
board next year, I have a disk on hand that I can use. However, when I boot
my machine with the disk in the cd:/ player it dosen't show the burned image
of the ISO image like it shows the win2k disk when I do a fresh install.

Can anyone advise me on this?
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kraleigh

You need to use mastering software such as Nero or Roxio to burn the image
to disk, burning the ISO to a data disk gives you nothing useful.

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"kevin raleigh" <kevinraleigh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I was given a key gen to a download site from my college's business
> department for Windows XP Pro sp2. I can load XP directly by clicking the
> key
> gen and downloading the ISO file. This launches a window that downloads
> the
> file, unpacks it, and then installs it.
>
> What I have done is save the ISO to CD so that when I upgrade my mother
> board next year, I have a disk on hand that I can use. However, when I
> boot
> my machine with the disk in the cd:/ player it dosen't show the burned
> image
> of the ISO image like it shows the win2k disk when I do a fresh install.
>
> Can anyone advise me on this?
> --
> kraleigh