Installing W2k into a laptop

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I am trying to upgrade my desk top to a laptop. The desk top dual boots
into XP and W2K--the XP being installed when purchased. The W2K is an
upgrade version from W98 that uses the 4 floppy disks to startup. It
installed very easily into the desk top. The lap top also has XP installed
and I would like to get the W2k installed so that the computer would be
similiar to the desk top. I have partitioned the HD into FAT32 partitions,
setting one up specifically for the W2K as per instructions in Partition
Magic. The problem is that there is no floppy drive in the lap top. To work
around I have tried the following:
Copied the #1 floppy to a CD--will not even start to boot
Attached a USB floppy disk drive and used the 4 startup disks---this boots
and loads the files into the W2k partition, however, at the point of
"starting W2k" the process stops and the following shows up:
Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF2463848, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000,0x00000000)
"Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed HD's,
or HD controllers. Check your HD to make sure it is properly configured or
terminated"

The lap top has never been on the internet and I have not loaded any
applications or files from the desk top, thus I would eliminate the viruses
as a problem. I suspect that W2k setup doesn't like the USB floppy disk
drive.

Any suggestions as to how to get the W2k installed???? Is there anyway that
I can created a CD that will work in place of the 4 floppys???

 

[Dave Patrick]

This in of itself may be impossible.

"I am trying to upgrade my desk top to a laptop"

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Try booting the CD-rom.
To do a clean install, either boot the Windows 2000 install CD-Rom or setup
disks. The set of four install disks can be created from your Windows 2000
CD-Rom; change to the \bootdisk directory on the CD-Rom and execute
makeboot.exe (from dos) or makebt32.exe (from 32 bit) and follow the
prompts.

When you get to the point, choose to install to the unallocated space. Also
note that NTFS is the native file system of Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

Be sure to apply these to your new install before connecting to any network.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/6/A/E6A04295-D2A8-40D0-A0C5-241BFECD095E/W2KSP4_EN.EXE
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-049.mspx

After the install you'll want to boot the Windows XP install CD-Rom and from
the recovery console run;
fixboot
to repair the boot sector.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I am trying to upgrade my desk top to a laptop. The desk top dual boots
| into XP and W2K--the XP being installed when purchased. The W2K is an
| upgrade version from W98 that uses the 4 floppy disks to startup. It
| installed very easily into the desk top. The lap top also has XP
installed
| and I would like to get the W2k installed so that the computer would be
| similiar to the desk top. I have partitioned the HD into FAT32
partitions,
| setting one up specifically for the W2K as per instructions in Partition
| Magic. The problem is that there is no floppy drive in the lap top. To
work
| around I have tried the following:
| Copied the #1 floppy to a CD--will not even start to boot
| Attached a USB floppy disk drive and used the 4 startup disks---this boots
| and loads the files into the W2k partition, however, at the point of
| "starting W2k" the process stops and the following shows up:
| Stop: 0x0000007B (0xF2463848, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000,0x00000000)
| "Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed HD's,
| or HD controllers. Check your HD to make sure it is properly configured
or
| terminated"
|
| The lap top has never been on the internet and I have not loaded any
| applications or files from the desk top, thus I would eliminate the
viruses
| as a problem. I suspect that W2k setup doesn't like the USB floppy disk
| drive.
|
| Any suggestions as to how to get the W2k installed???? Is there anyway
that
| I can created a CD that will work in place of the 4 floppys???