Clean install using the T41 recovery CD set: How?

[feklee]

Yes, this is possible: One can do the recovery of WinXP Pro from the T41 recovery CD set in such a way that one gets a clean Windows installation, i.e. without all the IBM and 3rd party tools and drivers. I've done it once, and now I want to do it again. Unfortunately, I don't remember what is the trick. Anyone?

Actually, the last (and first) time I did the clean install using the recovery disks, I wanted to do a normal install, but something weird must have happened: The stage where the IBM installers usually run was somehow skipped and at some point I was offered the question "Windows erneut versiegeln?" (German for "Seal Windows anew?") which I approved. At first I was annoyed that the install didn't complete, but later I very much appreciated the clean install.

[krosenstein]

If there's an answer to this, I'd like to hear it too.

[feklee]

Well, personally I'm not so interested in the answer any longer.

Reason: I used a little program offered on the web site of the German computer magazine C't:

http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/06/03/202/

The program successfully created a regular Win XP Pro installation CD-ROM ISO image from my recent recovery installation. After writing the image to a CD-ROM, I was able to do a clean installation.

Interestingly all data for the CD-ROM must somehow be stored on disk. The CD-ROM allows free selection of the partition to install to, and it allows booting the recovery console, just like an ordinary non-recovery Win XP installation CD-ROM.

[vpn-user]

Interestingly all data for the CD-ROM must somehow be stored on disk.

Yes. The OEM licence forces the OEM to put all files of the OEM media either on harddisk or CD. As IBM does not provide CDs it has to be on harddisk (C:\I386). With these files it is easy to create your own installation media. You don' t need any 3rd party tools for this, btw. What this c't tool does, is nothing special. They even wrote rubbish in their "XP Komendium".