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| Thread ID: 41485 | 2004-01-12 21:47:00 | Installing XP PROBLEMS! | Ender (5019) | Press F1 |
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| 207015 | 2004-01-12 21:47:00 | XP is screwed. It won't install. I repartitioned the hard-disk with PartitionMagic so that its ready for Linux after XP, so no operating system currently, blank disk. So I'm running XP from boot. The computer's too old to support CD booting, so I'm using a Windows 98 floppy (DOS) to get to the cd - I run "winnt" in the "i386" folder which starts up a setup thing which says "Please wait while setup copies files to the hard-drive." This isn't the setup installation. ITs preparation for it. When it finishes copying files it says that it needs to restart the computer to begin the installation, or something, and press ENTER to do so. Pressing ENTER does indeed restart the computer, but then it doesn't get to the CD - it sits there saying "non-system disc, please insert correct disc" or something like that. Using the Win98 floppy I can start all over again - running 'winnt', then it says "removing files from previous installation" and eventually it starts copying files, but when it finishes the same thing happens as the first time. Oh, and the setup.exe on the root of the CD won't run in DOS. Any suggestions? -Ender |
Ender (5019) | ||
| 207016 | 2004-01-12 21:50:00 | If your PC can't support CD Booting, then I would doubt that it would be able to run WinXP. Try doing a google search for how to install WinXP from DOS and see what happens. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 207017 | 2004-01-12 21:55:00 | Nah, its 600MHz 128MB RAM so it should be ok. | Ender (5019) | ||
| 207018 | 2004-01-12 22:09:00 | A 600 MHz PC should support CD booting. Is the boot priority set correctly in BIOS? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 207019 | 2004-01-12 22:21:00 | Alternatively, you can download XP setup disks from Microsoft for computers that dont have CD booting. This link (www.drd.dyndns.org) has links to MS for the different versions of XP. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 207020 | 2004-01-12 22:32:00 | Perhaps it is the BIOS itself which doesn't support booting from a CD. | agent (30) | ||
| 207021 | 2004-01-12 22:49:00 | Probably you should do a XP compatibility check before running setup. If it doesn't boot from CD, you may like to copy the whole XP cd to your HDD (create a folder for the files say, C:\XP) and then run setup from there. It may pay to check your BIOS settings for boot sequence first. Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 207022 | 2004-01-12 23:16:00 | Hi Ender, I would go with Terry Porritt's suggestion and get the bootdisks for installing WinXP, you require 6 blank floppy disks. Have a look at www.bootdisk.com, half way through the page they have a HOWTO for installing a clean copy of WinXP. Remove the Partitions made with PartitionMagic, you can Partition the drives using XP and just leave freespace for Linux so no need to use this program. The disk would only be blank if there was no formatting the partitions made, which means the disk is left RAW. Files could not be able to be copied onto the disk without a filesystem so I'm uncertain of how copying files from the CD were made without having an existing file system to be copied too. Go with the bootdisks for XP, this would be an easier way to go about it. Noel Nosivad |
Noel Nosivad (389) | ||
| 207023 | 2004-01-13 00:31:00 | > So I'm running XP from boot. The computer's too old > to support CD booting, so I'm using a Windows 98 > floppy (DOS) to get to the cd - I run "winnt" in the > "i386" folder which starts up a setup thing which Wont work. I also tried this first and gave in. Only way is to boot from the CD or use the proper WinXP boot disks. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 207024 | 2004-01-13 01:36:00 | It is COMPLETE! Mwahahahahahaaa! Greetings from Windows XP! Thankyou for the help! Just like home! Internet goes straight off (not glaring at any LINUXes), I've set up some users, everything's nice and shiny. Yes, I downloaded from Microsoft the XP Pro boot floppy making thing, ran it on other comp, nothing to it really. The DOS-based program ran fine, made me 6 disks, put them in other machine, they all ran and up popped the graphical XP installer at the end of it. |
Ender (5019) | ||
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