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| Thread ID: 111798 | 2010-08-12 01:44:00 | Dell Optiplex SX270 | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 1126984 | 2010-08-12 01:44:00 | Managed to pull this out of the garage and though i would put it to use. Appears the hard drive has failed, so, not wanting to buy anything else as i cant afford at the moment i was looking at a guide to put XP onto a USB hard drive, which i have an enclosure for, and a million drives. Problem is, i dont understand what to do, the guide is here (www.ngine.de) and its talking about alot of complicated things. Is there a simple way to acheive what i want? Linux works, but i would prefer Windows if I can. | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 1126985 | 2010-08-12 01:56:00 | Since you have "a million drives" why not just replace the internal hard drive with a spare you have and forgo the USB enclosure? | Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1126986 | 2010-08-12 03:35:00 | I agree. Why not just swap the drives around? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1126987 | 2010-08-12 05:21:00 | because, the SX270 use an 2.5" IDE laptop drive. I only have SATA drives. And instead of spending 80 bucks to get an IDE drive I thought i would use what I had | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 1126988 | 2010-08-12 05:32:00 | Fair enough I don't see what is so hard about that website you linked to though. It looks very well laid out and easy to follow. Just go through the steps slowly and carefully and it should work just fine |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1126989 | 2010-08-13 03:29:00 | when i comes to unpacking the IN_ files....i cannot find the MS cab SDK for XP, or am i missing something? | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 1126990 | 2010-08-13 03:34:00 | ? You usually extract (use the expand command) for IN_ files in a command prompt (if you do it manually). WHAT exactly do you want to extract? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1126991 | 2010-08-13 03:47:00 | "Use the Cab SDK (from the command line) for extracting the contents of the .IN_ files. Each of them contains exactly one .inf file. If you are unsure how to use the Cab SDK, here is an example command line: "cabarc x USBSTOR.IN_" . You should end up with three new files in the folder," Taken from the website i mentioned in my first post. Im going about a LONG and COMPLEX way of getting XP onto this computer |
aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 1126992 | 2010-08-13 04:03:00 | You have to copy the files it says in step 4 * TXTSETUP.SIF * DOSNET.INF * USB.IN_ * USBPORT.IN_ * USBSTOR.IN_ Copy those files from the ISO image of your XP CD to a folder somewhere, doesn't matter where, you could put them on your desktop, wherever. Then open the command line, and change to the directory where those files are you just copied. Then run the command cabarc x "filename".IN_ 3 times, each replacing "filename" with the name of the file you wish to extract. OR, I think you could use the the expand command www.computerhope.com |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1126993 | 2010-08-13 04:55:00 | I used the extract to unpack the IN_ files. the cabarc doesnt exist in my system so i couldnt use it. ive done the said modifications, how do i go back the other way and repack them as IN_ files? sorry im not a command line person. | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
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