Installation Problems

[Nic and Family]

Hello,
My computer's hard drive has just been reformatted,
therefore it has no OS. I have one active partition. I
am using fdisk from an windows ME boot disk. I now want
to install XP off of the CD. When I am at the "A" prompt
I switch to my cd-rom drive and find the setup.exe. But
when I try and run setup it says that this cannot be run
in DOS. What do I have to do now if I have no OS to run
stepup out of?

Thanks

[purplehaz]

Boot to the xp cd, it is bootable. It has all the tools to install xp on the
cd along with formatting and partitioning.
Or:
boot to xp floppy boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) and follow instructions.
If my memory is right, when using floppies, the file to start the install is
ntsetup.exe (setup.exe is the old win9x file).

Nic and Family wrote:
> Hello,
> My computer's hard drive has just been reformatted,
> therefore it has no OS. I have one active partition. I
> am using fdisk from an windows ME boot disk. I now want
> to install XP off of the CD. When I am at the "A" prompt
> I switch to my cd-rom drive and find the setup.exe. But
> when I try and run setup it says that this cannot be run
> in DOS. What do I have to do now if I have no OS to run
> stepup out of?
>
> Thanks

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Nic and Family > typed:

> My computer's hard drive has just been reformatted,
> therefore it has no OS. I have one active partition. I
> am using fdisk from an windows ME boot disk. I now want
> to install XP off of the CD. When I am at the "A" prompt
> I switch to my cd-rom drive and find the setup.exe. But
> when I try and run setup it says that this cannot be run
> in DOS. What do I have to do now if I have no OS to run
> stepup out of?


Boot from the Windows XP CD and follow the prompts. It wasn't
necessary to have formatted the drive first, since the
reinstallation could have done if for you. In fact, if you want
to use NTFS (which I normally recommend) it's better to let it
reformat again in NTFS, rather than convert to it later; that
avoids a potential performance issue with cluster sizes.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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