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Installing XP Pro on a Laptop
Name: d3athcard Date: January 27, 2004 at 09:53:08 Pacific OS: Windows Me CPU/Ram: pentium 3 500 / 192 Mb Ra
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i'm trying to install XP Pro on a second partition of the HD, this laptop has an internal floppy and an external pcmcia CD drive (freecom traveller not USB Think old style) it copys the setup files to the HD then restart, this loads up into the XP setup starts to load up the drivers etc then asks whether i want to install or repair, where i choose install where it says: "Setup cannot find a CD-ROM drive."
Name: trvlr Date: January 27, 2004 at 11:23:24 Pacific
Reply:
Can you access the CDROM from a '98 bootdisk boot? If so then can you not copy the XP files (the i386) to the hard-drive; then run install from there?
Incidentally what's on the first (Primary) partition; and why XP to the second (Extended?) partition?
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Response Number 2
Name: d3athcard Date: January 28, 2004 at 15:09:39 Pacific
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the first partition has a very damaged version of Windows Me on it, i left this on there as i cant get the PCMCIA CD drive to be accessed in DOS so have no way of installing another version of windows of it
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