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12th February 2009, 00:02 | #1 |
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| 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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12th February 2009, 00:11 | #2 |
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12th February 2009, 09:13 | #3 |
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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?
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12th February 2009, 09:30 | #4 |
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| 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
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12th February 2009, 09:49 | #5 |
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| do you still have a driver CD of this laptop? what kind of portable?
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12th February 2009, 10:08 | #6 |
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| Dell C400. Drivers can be found on the dell site, that's not the problem.
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12th February 2009, 11:13 | #7 |
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| install all those drivers on the XP system before you move it to the C400
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12th February 2009, 12:02 | #8 |
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| 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.
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12th February 2009, 12:14 | #9 |
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| 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
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12th February 2009, 12:20 | #10 |
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| don't have floppy either. Will try with windows 98 CD
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