How do i identify the appropriate CD-ROM

I have 5 of my desk top PCs running Win XP Pro. While updating one of them, it requsted for a restart.During booting it came up with instruction that a file is missing, and that i should boot from the original CD ROM of the win xp and press r .
I have all the CD but not labelled. Is there a way i can identify particular one may be from the working ones

 

Hi ! I think you should have to be check all the CD's and the one which is working, you should have to mark it on the CD so in future, if you want to use than you can easily find that among 5, which is working.

 

thanks, booting from one of the CD did not take me to recovery console, rather i have the options to press continue to instal or F3 to exit set up, when i selected continue it gave me option to select partition >>> to format. So i terminated the operation to seek help.
However my original question is not addressed, if i fail to label my CD and PC at installation, is not posible to identify the cd used:confused with activation codes?

 

Please give details of the problem system, particularly if it has a PATA (commonly known as IDE) or SATA hard drive?

 

to widefire, the hard disk is SATA

 

In which case you'll need an XP disk slipstreamed to SP3.

See Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Create Bootable CD for details.

 

you need a recovery program to recover the cd/dvd : isobuster.com
http://www.oemailrecovery.com/cd_recovery.html

 

@ widefire, i have started "Slipstreaming Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Create Bootable CD''. Downloaded Isobuster etc Which version of Nero do i need, i have Nero 7 essential which i cant upgrade.It came with an equipment
It does not have those advanced menu

 

You don't need any particular version of nero as long as your burning software can handle ISO's (most if not all will).

 

Update: i have successfully Slipstreamed, i got the following error while booting with the CD 'the file ohci1394.sys could not be found', press any key to continue
after
setup failed press any key to restart your computer