Installing XP Home on older laptop

[Guest]

My wife has an older Fujitsu laptop. It has one drive bay that will recieve
the CD-ROM or floppy drive. When I upgraded to XP Home from Windows ME, the
laptop hardly functioned anymore. I am attempting to do a clean and install
of XP Home and have already reformatted the c: drive with a WIndows 98 setup
disk. I downloaded the XP Home floppy setup disk utility and created the 6
setup disks. When I run the setup disks, the files load, but I cannot run
setup with the CD-ROM, because during the floppy setup, the CD-ROM was not in
the drive bay, and thus was not recognized by setup.
Does anyone know how I can install XP on this laptop?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

My wife has an older Fujitsu laptop. It has one drive bay that will
recieve the CD-ROM or floppy drive. When I upgraded to XP Home from
Windows ME, the laptop hardly functioned anymore. I am attempting to
do a clean and install of XP Home and have already reformatted the c:
drive with a WIndows 98 setup disk. I downloaded the XP Home floppy
setup disk utility and created the 6 setup disks. When I run the
setup disks, the files load, but I cannot run setup with the CD-ROM,
because during the floppy setup, the CD-ROM was not in the drive bay,
and thus was not recognized by setup.
Does anyone know how I can install XP on this laptop?

Why don't you just boot from the CD? You don't need floppies. And you don't
need to format a drive first - let setup create the partition.

If you have an upgrade CD only, make sure you have "qualifying media" handy
when prompted during setup - say, a Win98 or WinME or Win2k CD. Not a mfr's
bundled recovery CD....regular OS CD, even OEM.

I hope you have already checked with Fujitsu to make sure they have drivers
for XP for this laptop - I'd download them to something like a USB flash
drive or floppy so you can install them immediately after your XP setup, if
something doesn't work right.

 

[kurttrail]

My wife has an older Fujitsu laptop. It has one drive bay that will
recieve the CD-ROM or floppy drive. When I upgraded to XP Home from
Windows ME, the laptop hardly functioned anymore. I am attempting to
do a clean and install of XP Home and have already reformatted the c:
drive with a WIndows 98 setup disk. I downloaded the XP Home floppy
setup disk utility and created the 6 setup disks. When I run the
setup disks, the files load, but I cannot run setup with the CD-ROM,
because during the floppy setup, the CD-ROM was not in the drive bay,
and thus was not recognized by setup.
Does anyone know how I can install XP on this laptop?

You may not be able to install it and have it totally functional, if
your OEM doesn't have XP drivers for all the devices.

The CDROM should be bootable, but you have to setup your BIOS to boot to
the CDROM.

But before that, I'd go to the Fujitsu web site and see if they have all
the drivers for XP or not for your particular model of laptop. If not,
then it's back to the Hell of ME for your laptop.


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