Call to Pegasus (just needed additional ideas)

[katy]

Hi, you had been kindly helping me (I have run into a glitch) to install XP
on a newly created partition with PM7.0. After removing the old 'bad' C:
drive, I attempted to install my XP oem cd on the new partition. The
partition was set active in PM supposedly but in the process, my E:
partition no longer has a letter attached to it, F: is still intact. PM
reported an 'error' stating some about the drive not have IO capability or
something, I don't care about losing info, so I continued and a new
partition was created at the front of the large drive.

When I used the Win98 bootdisk I made from bootdisk.com, I almost got XP
installed except for 2 things. First after doing the cd\i386 and typing in
winnt, I was given the option to go forward 'without' SmartDrive or
discontinue and install SmartDrive. The instructions mentioned a DOS file
that explained about SmartDrive but I did not find this file & figured I
could go forward w/o it. I continued without it and XP copied some files
to my hard drive (before this, I had removed the C: drive that contained the
os, leaving just the larger drive with the new parition at the beginning of
it. After some files were copied, all copying stopped. I thought I had
locked up. I removed the floppy and rebooted with the XP cd in the cdrom
drive, whatever files HAD been copied proceeded with the install. BUT I
could not continue due to an error message stating it "could not find the
End User Licensing Agreement EULA". My XP cd is an OEM version, it came
with the system, it should work.

I put all drives back together in order to just send this so I hope you can
give me some suggestions. I don't care if I have to format all my drives
to get XP installed on (1) and reinstall my programs. I have all important
files saved to dvd's.

Any ideas???

Thanks for anything at this point........katy (below is part of an earlier
thread; feel free to delete some of this)


See below.

Thanks Pegasus, one last question: Is this the order I would perform
this.....

Add partition to beginning of 2nd drive, set as active, reboot to

complete.
*** Yes.

Shutdown, remove 'bad' drive, set 2nd drive as Master, *** Yes.
put Win98 bootdisk in floppy drive, reboot to A: prompt. *** Yes.
Put XP cd in cdrom drive, find prompt for cdrom drive assuming it's d, type in:
d: [enter]
cd \i386 [enter]
winnt [enter] *** Yes.
- Install WinXP in the FAT32 partition. *** Yes.
- When finished, convert it to NTFS. (or can I convert all partitions to
NTFS at that time?) I would do this with Part. Magic.

*** When given the choice then I prefer to use native tools, in this case
*** convert.exe.

Please don't hesitate to fill in what I missed, I can't afford to miss
anything .

*** It will work. Good luck!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi, you had been kindly helping me (I have run into a glitch) to install XP
on a newly created partition with PM7.0. After removing the old 'bad' C:
drive, I attempted to install my XP oem cd on the new partition. The
partition was set active in PM supposedly but in the process, my E:
partition no longer has a letter attached to it, F: is still intact. PM
reported an 'error' stating some about the drive not have IO capability or
something, I don't care about losing info, so I continued and a new
partition was created at the front of the large drive.

When I used the Win98 bootdisk I made from bootdisk.com, I almost got XP
installed except for 2 things. First after doing the cd\i386 and typing in
winnt, I was given the option to go forward 'without' SmartDrive or
discontinue and install SmartDrive. The instructions mentioned a DOS file
that explained about SmartDrive but I did not find this file & figured I
could go forward w/o it. I continued without it and XP copied some files
to my hard drive (before this, I had removed the C: drive that contained the
os, leaving just the larger drive with the new parition at the beginning of
it. After some files were copied, all copying stopped. I thought I had
locked up. I removed the floppy and rebooted with the XP cd in the cdrom
drive, whatever files HAD been copied proceeded with the install. BUT I
could not continue due to an error message stating it "could not find the
End User Licensing Agreement EULA". My XP cd is an OEM version, it came
with the system, it should work.

I put all drives back together in order to just send this so I hope you can
give me some suggestions. I don't care if I have to format all my drives
to get XP installed on (1) and reinstall my programs. I have all important
files saved to dvd's.

Any ideas???

Thanks for anything at this point........katy (below is part of an earlier
thread; feel free to delete some of this)

smartdrv.exe is a disk caching tool that is usually found in the
folder a:\DOS. It greatly accelerates the WinXP installation
process but it is not essential. To activate it, type a:\dos\smartdrv
after booting the machine with the Win98 boot disk.

I am not very familiar with the various flavours of the WinXP
licences, and I do not know what restrictions (if any) are in
place on the OEM version. I recommend you create a new
post under the heading "Unable to re-install OEM version of
WinXP" and put words similar to the following into your post:

====================
I would like to install WinXP on the primary FAT32
partition of my hard disk. I booted the machine with a
Win98 boot disk, then ran this command on my WinXP
OEM CD: i386\winnt. After some files were copied, all
copying stopped. I thought I had locked up. I removed
the floppy and rebooted with the XP cd in the cdrom drive,
whatever files HAD been copied proceeded with the install.
BUT I could not continue due to an error message stating it
"could not find the End User Licensing Agreement EULA".
My XP cd is an OEM version, it came with the system, it
should work.

What do I have to do to reload WinXP?
====================

 

[Michael Stevens]

In

Hi, you had been kindly helping me (I have run into a glitch) to
install XP on a newly created partition with PM7.0. After removing
the old 'bad' C: drive, I attempted to install my XP oem cd on the
new partition. The partition was set active in PM supposedly but in
the process, my E: partition no longer has a letter attached to it,
F: is still intact. PM reported an 'error' stating some about the
drive not have IO capability or something, I don't care about losing
info, so I continued and a new partition was created at the front of
the large drive.
When I used the Win98 bootdisk I made from bootdisk.com, I almost got
XP installed except for 2 things. First after doing the cd\i386 and
typing in winnt, I was given the option to go forward 'without'
SmartDrive or discontinue and install SmartDrive. The instructions
mentioned a DOS file that explained about SmartDrive but I did not
find this file & figured I could go forward w/o it. I continued
without it and XP copied some files to my hard drive (before this, I
had removed the C: drive that contained the os, leaving just the
larger drive with the new parition at the beginning of it. After
some files were copied, all copying stopped. I thought I had
locked up. I removed the floppy and rebooted with the XP cd in the
cdrom drive, whatever files HAD been copied proceeded with the
install. BUT I could not continue due to an error message stating it
"could not find the End User Licensing Agreement EULA". My XP cd
is an OEM version, it came with the system, it should work.
I put all drives back together in order to just send this so I hope
you can give me some suggestions. I don't care if I have to format
all my drives to get XP installed on (1) and reinstall my programs. I have
all important files saved to dvd's.

Any ideas???

Thanks for anything at this point........katy (below is part of an
earlier thread; feel free to delete some of this)


See below.

Kathy,
Follow the link to the step by step below it covers just about everything
including the smartdrv and where to get it.
How to clean install XP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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