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install xp over network
Name: wickedss Date: January 17, 2007 at 22:15:16 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home CPU/Ram: pIII 128mb ram Product: vaio pcg-r505jl
Comment:
I have a laptop with a faulty cdrom and a working floppy. I am trying to install xp over a network. I used Bart's Network boot disk and was able to make the connection to the right drive on the server. However, when I run winnt from the i386 folder. I am told that it can't find a hard drive. I exit out of the set up and try to find my drive in dos but can't find it. It is in the bios. Is it because the network boot disk is dos and the hdd is ntfs?
The laptop is a vaio and is very proprietary with external hardware so I can't use just any cdrom.
Name: orbital Date: January 18, 2007 at 00:23:55 Pacific
Reply:
Is the drive fdisk/format/active ??
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Response Number 2
Name: wickedss Date: January 18, 2007 at 07:59:01 Pacific
Reply:
it is Active
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Response Number 3
Name: wickedss Date: January 18, 2007 at 08:05:37 Pacific
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By the way, I was able to find the drive myself when I used some old Partition magic boot floppies I have.
I am just wondering if this stems from the fact that the Network boot disk is dos. When I use any dos disk I can't find the drive. I have tried Dos Shell 6.0, win 95 & 98 Start up disks, & other dos progs. None of them see the ntfs drive at all.
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Response Number 4
Name: wickedss Date: January 18, 2007 at 11:17:22 Pacific
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UPDATE: Ok, I got it to work. I had to format the hdd to fat32 and then all was well again.
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