Install windows by copying install files. I here have a portable that cannot boot from USB, and has no optical drive. But I want to install windows XP. What I did, is using a bracket simply connected the hard disk to my PC, and then installed the Windows on that drive. Put it back in the portable, it starts, but then hangs on a black screen. I guess some default drivers not ok. Any solutions ? I was thinking of copying all the files from the CD to the hard disk and then launch installation from the portable. But how :) |
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most likely device driver issue; storage controller. what kind of laptop is it? on what kind of system are you "preinstalling" the XP? is there a floppy drive available? |
There is no external drive. Installing on a E5200 + nvidia chipset board, and want to use it on a P3 based portable. 7 year gap :) |
do you still have a driver CD of this laptop? what kind of portable? |
Dell C400. Drivers can be found on the dell site, that's not the problem. |
install all those drivers on the XP system before you move it to the C400 |
Doesn't do the trick. Extra question. How can I install dos on the harddisk and make it bootable. Only dos. So that I can copy the data folder from he cd and launch so the installation. |
Format the laptop HDD as FAT16/32 in Windows XP Do you have a floppy drive in your main PC? http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm create 98SE bootdisk floppy; on your main PC, disconnect all HDD drives except lappy HDD, reboot your machine with the 98SE floppy. Do a "sys C:" at the command prompt, this will copy the DOS system files to your HDD an make it bootable; afterwards you can reconnect all other HDDs reboot in XP and copy the i386 folder from your XP cd |
don't have floppy either. Will try with windows 98 CD |
Ok, So I can boot into dos using the CD (all files in ramdrive). Sys c:, or even simply sys is an unknown command |
Windows 98 makes a ramdrive with all the tools, this will be mounted to another drive letter, R: or something, you need to first go to that drive before you can access the commands. you can also write the http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm to CD using nero , referencing to the boot img , it's a special function |
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