Installing English version of Windows XP on a Japanese computer

[Guest]

I have just bought a Fujitsu CE50S7 Desktop with a Japanese version Windows
XP pre-installed. I tried to install my English version of Windows XP by
booting from the CD, but I got a message stating that the hard drive couldn't
be found, and aborted the setup. What can I do to make sure the hard drive is
found?

 

[DL]

Perhaps you need to use the F6 option, early in the installation, to install
third party drivers, eg sata/raid, from floppy

 

[Guest]

I tried the F6 key, but got the same result

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have just bought a Fujitsu CE50S7 Desktop with a Japanese version Windows
XP pre-installed. I tried to install my English version of Windows XP by
booting from the CD, but I got a message stating that the hard drive couldn't
be found, and aborted the setup. What can I do to make sure the hard drive is
found?

Very early in the boot process, just after having booted from the WinXP
CD, the screen will display the words to the effect: "Setup is examining
your system." Press <F6> when this happens, and have the
*manufacturer's* WinXP-specific English drivers for your SATA, IDE, or
RAID controller available on a floppy disk.


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[Guest]

i would fdisk that drive and reformat it with the "AMERICAN" file system.
you simply do not know what you have.............

 

[Guest]

have you tried running windows setup from the desktop...?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

i would fdisk that drive and reformat it with the "AMERICAN" file system.
you simply do not know what you have.............

You're kidding, right? "American file system?"

And, fyi, FDisk is an old MS-DOS utility that is neither available or
needed in WinXP. All legitimate WinXP installation CDs are bootable and
have the capability of deleting, creating, and formatting partitions.


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[Bruce Chambers]

have you tried running windows setup from the desktop...?

And just how, pray tell, would that help the OP install drivers that
clearly don't come on the WinXP CD?


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[Guest]

when you run windows setup from within the windows desktop, setup analyzes
the system. it just be that the setup will be able to load some of those
files onto the harddisk to prepare and initiate an install upon reboot......
there is a harddisk on the system but it appears that the problem is that
only the japanese version of windows recognizes it. .....

 

[Guest]

oh yeh, i almost forgot. but when you run windows setup from the desktop,
there is also a selection that analyzes the computer to see if its windows xp
ready. this can identify what hardware will pose a problem for the
repair/reinstallation.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

when you run windows setup from within the windows desktop, setup analyzes
the system.

Assuming the same language versions, yes. That doesn't apply, in this
case. It's not possible to "upgrade" Windows from one language to
another; a clean installation (formatted hard drive) is the only way to go.

Cannot Upgrade or Install a Different Language Version of Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;282089

it just be that the setup will be able to load some of those
files onto the harddisk to prepare and initiate an install upon reboot......

Even if there were no insurmountable language conflict, the setup
routine can't copy files (proprietary device drivers) to the hard drive
if it doesn't have them. Upon restart, the OP would be faced with an
unbootable condition.

there is a harddisk on the system but it appears that the problem is that
only the japanese version of windows recognizes it. .....

Because the computer manufacturer included the necessary IDE/SATA/RAID
controller drivers in its OEM version of Windows. No other WinXP CD is
going to have those specific, proprietary drivers built-in. They have
to be installed separately, early in the hardware identification process.


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[Guest]

I tried to set it up from the desktop, but I recieved a message (written in
kanji). My version of Windows is 3 years old; do you think that because it
doesn't include service pack 2, that it won't install? Because on my laptop,
the age of it's Japanese Windows and my Windows are the same, and both
contain no service pack 2.

 

[Guest]

I translated the the text i the message box that I recieved when trying to
install the XP; my version is older than that on the comp, so now how can I
update my CD, or do I have to buy a newer version altogether?

 

[Guest]

kanji? well the xp has been a standard o.s. for a while and the sp2 is the
latest revision that is avail for free from the windows site. it might be
cheaper to buy a hard drve for 40 bucks or so and install your windows on to
it. the downloads all of those updates from windows update site. i doubt
that buying the winxp sp2 version will have any of those special drivers
required to run that particular harddrive as mentioned earlier..... have you
tried doing a runn>cmd and then set up from that cd drive. supposedly the
windows of different languages are incompatiable. but maybe if you can
initiate an install, you will have the option the set the language to us
english....

 

[Guest]

How do you do a runn>cmd? I've tried the F12 function when I started up the
computer, then booted from the CD..but it still couldn't find the disk.

 

[Guest]

at the desktop you can use run and open the cmd window and run setup.exe that
is located on the cd drive. but you may as well try to give up as it might
be cheaper getting a compatiable harddrive and install win onto it..... if
you are committed with installing win onto the current harddrive and if you
have those drivers mentioned earlier, eg rad, etc., windows will let you
install them before proceeding with the install. at the beginning of the
install, windows will pause and you can insert the disks that came with your
motherboard or for the harddisk. but it sounds like you maybe don't have
them.....

 

[Guest]

A local computer shop told me that I need to install drivers for my ata-type
hard drive. Where can I find the software, and should I try to install it
myself?