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Installing Windows XP Pro Without O/S
Name: Dennis Thomson Date: October 29, 2001 at 19:03:08 Pacific
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My question is how do you install Windows XP Professional on a computer which does not have an operating system. I tried to do this by booting with a floppy made with WIN ME O/S and change the CD Rom Drive to where the Win XP Professional CD was, it said that it does not run from DOS. How the hell you run windows if you have not got it installed? It has confused the hell out me.
Name: Goatman Date: October 29, 2001 at 19:10:15 Pacific
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Just boot up with the CD in the drive, you can fdisk and format using that CD as well as install the operating system.
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Response Number 2
Name: Dennis Thomson Date: October 29, 2001 at 19:31:02 Pacific
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Thanks Goatman. If I am right I would need to change the boot up sequence from the BIOS so it will boot from the CD ROM, do I? Thanking you in advance.
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Response Number 3
Name: TechGod Date: October 29, 2001 at 19:36:12 Pacific
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Some XP install off of cd the CD won't boot unless the CD has xpboot.bin on CD, Also check that your BIOS supports bootable media
IE: CDRoms
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Response Number 4
Name: Dennis Thomson Date: October 29, 2001 at 19:40:56 Pacific
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Thanks for that TechGod, where is xpboot.bin on CD? My BIOS supports bootable media.
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Response Number 5
Name: Dluong Date: October 29, 2001 at 19:52:55 Pacific
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You can also boot your system with a dos boot disk that can load a cd rom driver eg. win98 boot disk and go into the directory i386 in your winXp cd and run the program winnt.exe that will let you install xp in dos. It works for me.
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Response Number 6
Name: Dennis Thomson Date: October 29, 2001 at 20:59:19 Pacific
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Thanks Dluong, I will give this a try when I get home.
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Response Number 7
Name: JP Date: October 29, 2001 at 21:43:27 Pacific
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Here, if you need to make a BOOTABLE startup disk for WinXP then goes here; you can get from microsofts website Home Edition http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33290
Pro Edition http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33291
Good Luck
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Response Number 8
Name: Omar Date: October 29, 2001 at 23:16:30 Pacific
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Try first booting from the CD, and see what happens.
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Response Number 9
Name: rod Date: December 16, 2001 at 18:20:41 Pacific
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go into your CMOS and set your cd rom as boot from, nd install from there. Your winxp pro will boot from there , it worked for me
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