Installing XP on a flat Latitude C610

[havenlad]

So far, it's failed every time. It seems to fail to find the CD ROM drivers.
I don't have a rescue disk so is it possible to slipstream the drivers into
my XP disk and expect it to work? Or would I have to buy the rescue disk?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Anteaus]

A laptop, IIRC?

It may be possible to get round this by booting from a USB memory device
with BartPE or similar. (or even plain DOS with a CD driver)

You then run winnt.exe or winnt32.exe in the i386 folder of the Windows CD.

Otherwise, I would take the HD out and connect it to a desktop with an
adaptor, sys it (make it dos-bootable) and transfer the i386, reinstall the
disk and run winnt.exe.

These issues are always significantly more tricky on laptops owing to the
lack of a spare IDE/SATA port.

 

[Jim]

So far, it's failed every time. It seems to fail to find the CD ROM
drivers.
I don't have a rescue disk so is it possible to slipstream the drivers
into
my XP disk and expect it to work? Or would I have to buy the rescue disk?

Thanks in advance.

Are you saying that the computer cannot load the disk to begin the
installation?
If so, the computer is using the BIOS to load the CD-ROM. And, if the BIOS
does not recognize the CD, you have a serious problem on your hands.
Jim