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It *IS* Possible to Install XP from Dos
I finally figured it out and managed to install XP Home SP2 from Dos.
I made a Dos boot floppy disk from Windows 98. I first used Fdisk to partition, set active, and format the hard drive. I temporarily moved the hard drive (I planned to use to install XP), onto another computer that could read a USB flash drive. (I Used Windows 2000). I inserted my USB flash drive, which contains all the files from my XP install CD. (I previously copied my "touchy" XP install CD to this USB flash drive). I then copied everything from the flash drive, to the harddrive, I planned to use. putting them in a folder called "INSTALL". I then placed that hard drive on the computer to which I wanted to install XP. I booted that computer from my Dos boot floppy, went to drive C:, to C:\INSTALL\I386. Typed "Winnt". (winnt.exe). After that, it was just a matter of following the prompts, and NOT allowing the installer to change the format to NTFS. XP is finally installed, after 4 days of trying to fight with this.... Now it's just a matter of cleaning up all the XP bloat and setting it to classic mode. But that will have to wait, until I get the 80g hard drive I ordered for this system. I just installed it to a 10g drive, which I had laying around. Now that I know how, it's a piece of cake!!!! |
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It *IS* Possible to Install XP from Dos
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Now that I know how, it's a piece of cake!!!! Just in time for XP's wake. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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It *IS* Possible to Install XP from Dos
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 19:07:25 -0600, philo* wrote:
It would have gone a lot better if you loaded SMARTDRV One installed though you can convert the drive to NTFS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307848 I forgot to mention that I DID install smartdrv.exe. When I first tried, it asked me to install it, I refused, and it took 20 hours to just copy the files. Then it would not boot, because I had formatted the drive using the original installed XP, and never set it to ACTIVE. After all of that, I started over, adn used FDISK, which did a much better job of partitioning and formatting. This time I copied smartdrv to the floppy (from my Win98 computer), and made an antoexec.bat to load it upon booting. Then, it took less than an hour to copy the files and begin to install. That sure made a difference. I could not believe it took 20 hours without smartdrv. I plan to keep this dos boot floppy for future installs, and actually copied what I posted on here as a text file to the floppy so I remember next time. I dont install XP often, so I will forget. The last OS I installed was Win2000, about 7 years ago, and Win98se on someone elses computer around thazt same time. I thought there is a way to convert to NTFS. I'm debating whethere I want to install everything to the 80G drive when I get it, or just keep the OS on this 10G drive, and install the 80G as a second (data) drive. I think I'd prefer to keep my data drive on a Fat32 partition, so I can access it from dos. But the OS probably would be better on NTFS. So, maybe keeping this 10G drive for the OS might be smart, and gives me another 10G drive space too. thanks..... |
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It *IS* Possible to Install XP from Dos
On Mon, 3 Mar 2014 20:22:14 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
wrote: From: Now that I know how, it's a piece of cake!!!! Just in time for XP's wake. That's OK, I've been running Win98 since 1998, and that was dead long ago. I never liked XP, but I'm finally getting used to it, and am forced to use it because there are no longer any browsers that work correctly in Win98. I dont see myself ever going to any OS newer than XP. They dont interest me in the least, and at my age, it dont much matter.... |
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Now Just copy XP install CD in partition D:
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I finally figured it out and managed to install XP Home SP2 from Dos. I made a Dos boot floppy disk from Windows 98. I first used Fdisk to partition, set active, and format the hard drive. That OK Now Just copy XP install CD in partition D: Boot to C:\ in C:\D:\setup And instill it to C:\ |
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Now Just copy XP install CD in partition D:
On 03/05/2014 02:23 PM, Hot-Text wrote:
wrote in message ... I finally figured it out and managed to install XP Home SP2 from Dos. I made a Dos boot floppy disk from Windows 98. I first used Fdisk to partition, set active, and format the hard drive. That OK Now Just copy XP install CD in partition D: Boot to C:\ in C:\D:\setup And instill it to C:\ That will NOT work wrong command...plus and you need to load smrtdrv |
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