A Question About Using Boot Disk And Booting of a CD

[Scott O]

Hey everyone, I havce 3 hardrives, C, D, and E. Now I
want to copy my windows xp cd to the E drive and use it
to install XP onto C. E has nothing on it. SO i want to
boot off a floppy and install XP of the E directory. So
how do i do it? DO i modify something in the floppy boot
disk to point it to the E directory?

 

[Colin Painter]

What is the state you want to end up in? From what I can tell, you want an
XP installation on C at the end of this. Can you explain why you can't just
do a normal install from the cd? What's with the idea of copying or
installing onto E? That part is not making sense.

cp

 

[Mike Brearley]

So you have the i386 setup files located on your E: drive? Is the E: drive
formatted FAT or FAT32? If yes to both those, simply boot up to a boot disk
(windows 98SE custom from www.bootdisk.com), load smartdrive by typing
smartdrv at the command prompt and change directory to the i386 directory or
whereever the setup files are located. Type winnt and press enter. You
should be good to go from there.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Guest]

the drivers are all NTFS

-----Original Message-----
So you have the i386 setup files located on your E: drive? Is the E: drive
formatted FAT or FAT32? If yes to both those, simply boot up to a boot disk
(windows 98SE custom from www.bootdisk.com), load smartdrive by typing
smartdrv at the command prompt and change directory to the i386 directory or
whereever the setup files are located. Type winnt and press enter. You
should be good to go from there.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley





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[Michael Stevens]

So you have the i386 setup files located on your E: drive? Is the E:
drive formatted FAT or FAT32? If yes to both those, simply boot up
to a boot disk (windows 98SE custom from www.bootdisk.com), load
smartdrive by typing smartdrv at the command prompt and change
directory to the i386 directory or whereever the setup files are
located. Type winnt and press enter. You should be good to go from
there.

Smartdrv is not needed when installing from a flat [folder on the hard
drive], only when doing the dos install from CD.
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[Michael Stevens]

So you have the i386 setup files located on your E: drive? Is the E:
drive formatted FAT or FAT32? If yes to both those, simply boot up
to a boot disk (windows 98SE custom from www.bootdisk.com), load
smartdrive by typing smartdrv at the command prompt and change
directory to the i386 directory or whereever the setup files are
located. Type winnt and press enter. You should be good to go from
there.

Smartdrv is not needed when installing from a flat [folder on the hard
drive], only when doing the dos install from CD.

You would need a fat partition to install from the hard drive.
--

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