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Installing winddows xp/2000

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Name: djmrman
Date: July 23, 2006 at 18:01:46 Pacific
OS: Windows xp sp2
CPU/Ram: athlon
Comment:

Does any one know how to install windows xp /2000 from the hdd Ie just like the good old days with windows 98 ect



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Response Number 1
Name: djmrman
Date: July 23, 2006 at 18:17:25 Pacific
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buy the way this is a formated pc


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Response Number 2
Name: GX1 Man
Date: July 23, 2006 at 18:59:28 Pacific
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Copy the i386 direectory to the drive and use the appropriate setup disks.

Why are you going at it in this fashion?


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Response Number 3
Name: Sabertooth
Date: July 23, 2006 at 19:00:48 Pacific
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Just how do you intend to run the installation from a presumably formatted (blank) HDD?

Do you plan on copying the installation directories to the HDD from another drive externally or plan to first copy those folders to the HDD from a disc before running the install executable via DOS?

The internet is a series of tubes!


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Response Number 4
Name: djmrman
Date: July 23, 2006 at 19:54:25 Pacific
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I have a usb to ide cable I have a laptop with a dead cd rom so I was thinking of copying the file using the usb to ide cable using my pc with a good cdrom and making the hdd bootable !


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Response Number 5
Name: djmrman
Date: July 23, 2006 at 19:59:39 Pacific
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ps doesn't have a fdd either stupied hp


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Response Number 6
Name: ham30
Date: July 23, 2006 at 21:27:40 Pacific
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Pull the drive and connect it to a desktop PC using a cheap ide to laptop adapter. Make it bootable by doing a 'sys' from a win98 startup floppy. Copy the win2K folder to it. restore it to the laptop.

Do yourself a favor BACKUP!


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Response Number 7
Name: inverto
Date: July 23, 2006 at 22:57:38 Pacific
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Do you have a DOS driver for the USB to IDE Cable ????


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Response Number 8
Name: inverto
Date: July 23, 2006 at 22:59:16 Pacific
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307848/en-us


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Response Number 9
Name: mattie
Date: July 24, 2006 at 01:08:59 Pacific
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first, create a bootable USB stick with a win98 boot image (all you need is here: www.bootdisk.com). make sure it has the following files: fdisk.exe, format.exe smartdrv.exe and dos drivers for your usb link cable

boot from usb, run fdisk to delete old existing partition, probably non-dos, create new partition(s) - keep in mind that fat32 is limited to 40 gB, reboot and format partition(s). run SMARTDRV.exe. now create a folder I386 (md i386) and copy all files via link cable into this folder.

from this folder run WINNT.exe

good luck

p.s.: if you don't have dos drivers for your cable, you may create 2 partitions and install a temporary windows me (for it has usb support), move the folder i386 to the 2nd partition and then reformat partition no. 1, boot from stick, run smartdrv.exe and then winnt.exe from d:\i386

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