Install WinXP on laptop without floppy or CD-ROM?

[John]

Is it possible to install XP onto a laptop without using a CD-ROM or
floppy boot? I can attach the laptop HD to my desktop and format it
(FAT/32/NTFS) and copy the setup files onto it. It has been a while
since I loaded DOS onto a fresh hard drive. Can that even be done
under Win XP anymore? I noticed that the winXP dos prompt doesn't
offer the 'sys' command.

I forgot the necessary files to make a drive bootable. Isn't it
io.sys, msdos.sys, config.sys and autoexec.bat? Where can i get io.sys
and msdos.sys? And once I get the laptop to boot to a c prompt, can I
then execute the winXP setup?

Any help would be really appreciated...

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Is it possible to install XP onto a laptop without using a CD-ROM or
floppy boot? I can attach the laptop HD to my desktop and format it
(FAT/32/NTFS) and copy the setup files onto it. It has been a while
since I loaded DOS onto a fresh hard drive. Can that even be done
under Win XP anymore? I noticed that the winXP dos prompt doesn't
offer the 'sys' command.

I forgot the necessary files to make a drive bootable. Isn't it
io.sys, msdos.sys, config.sys and autoexec.bat? Where can i get
io.sys and msdos.sys? And once I get the laptop to boot to a c
prompt, can I then execute the winXP setup?

Any help would be really appreciated...

Format it FAT32 and sys it using a boot diskette from
http://www.bootdisk.com/ and then copy the files to it for install.
Install from it after booting from itself.