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Is it possible to install XP if the XP-CD is pre-copied to a blank
I stand corrected. I assumed you had a CD drive. I would create a tiny DOS
partition, unless you have a floppy drive. If the DOS partition is bootable you can use the winnt.exe route. Jim "XP Guy" wrote: If I have a blank hard drive that I've partitioned as FAT32 and will boot into DOS, and if I copy the entire contents of an XP cd to the drive, is there a way I can launch the XP installation process after the machine starts and boots itself into DOS? There doesn't seem to be much on the net that explicitly says you can do that. I've tried, and setup.exe requires that it be launched from a protected mode (32-bit) environment (ie like win-98 I guess). Some other comments I've come across is that possibly the install can be started from DOS by running winnt.exe with the appropriate command-line switches. Yet other comments refer to bart-pe. So, it it possible? |
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Is it possible to install XP if the XP-CD is pre-copied to a blank
I stand corrected. I assumed you had a CD drive. I would create a tiny DOS
partition, unless you have a floppy drive. If the DOS partition is bootable you can use the winnt.exe route. Jim "XP Guy" wrote: If I have a blank hard drive that I've partitioned as FAT32 and will boot into DOS, and if I copy the entire contents of an XP cd to the drive, is there a way I can launch the XP installation process after the machine starts and boots itself into DOS? There doesn't seem to be much on the net that explicitly says you can do that. I've tried, and setup.exe requires that it be launched from a protected mode (32-bit) environment (ie like win-98 I guess). Some other comments I've come across is that possibly the install can be started from DOS by running winnt.exe with the appropriate command-line switches. Yet other comments refer to bart-pe. So, it it possible? |
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