annonymous said:
trying to install ms win200xp pro corp. edition and after
windows installs hardware it prompts me to partition my
computer!@#!? what the heck do i do?
First - your solution:
Stop pressing a key to 'Boot from CD' again after you start the installation
the first time - you only need to boot from the CD once - after that - the
installation will read the information it needs from the CD without booting
from it.
Another solution might be that after you start the install (which does
include (possibly) deleting and creating partitions - at the next available
boot sequence, enter the BIOS and set it to boot from the hard drive instead
of the CDROM drive.
The last solution has to do with what version you claim to have - perhaps it
has been modified to not give you the choice of "Press any key to boot from
CD", but just boot over and over and over.. Go 'warez' people. The second
solution above should get you past that.
With that last idea in mind, I have to continue with a little fun and
possibly "feed the troll" - as it does seem to bring enjoyment to so many.
Please clarify what you are trying to install.
"ms" must be "Microsoft".
"win200xp", well, there was never a Windows 200.. Maybe you meant Windows
2000. But then again you put "xp" in there too and you are in the Windows
XP Setup and Deployment newsgroup - so perhaps you just meant Windows XP.
So you are trying to install Windows XP, then you add "pro corp.". Well,
there is a "Windows XP Professional", but there is no "Windows XP
Professional Corporate". Perhaps you mean the Windows XP Professional
edition Volume License? If you have the Volume License, I would hope you
are capable of installing Windows XP - as volume licenses start at 5 -
meaning you must of had at least 5 computers to want to spend the extra
money on a volume license agreement - so if you are having trouble with one
computer - you still have at least 4 more to go - so it is going to be a
long month for you. Not that any of that matters, because the "volume
license" copy only has one noticable difference, and that is the need for
activation has been eliminated. As far as installation goes, it is
identical to all other installs of Windows XP Professional. With that in
mind, you could even say that being "Professional" vs. "Home" does not make
any difference in how the operating system gets installed.
However, I suppose one could get themselves into this situation in several
ways. The only people I have ever heard call the "volume license" copies of
Windows XP the "corporate version" are IT people and 'Warez' people (leaving
out the various magazine/Internet/newspaper writers who might have been
writing about the illegal transfer of various software packages over the
Internet) - so you might be a fledgling 'warez' person who happened upon a
downloadable SP2 ISO via bit torrent/ftp/irc/p2p/other and who has never
installed an operating system before. Then again, you could be just a
regular person who got this copy from their place of business or friend, and
for whatever reason, you decided to install it yourself and your geek
friend/friendly IT person called it the "corporate edition" for whatever
reason. There are several other ways I suppose this could all have gone
down, but given your writing style, I would either guess "fledgling warez
person", "corporate 'higher-up'" or "smart-aleck newsgroup troll".
In any case - I do hope that my solution works for you - if it does not -
compare the copy of the ISO you downloaded to an actual copy of Windows XP
Professional - perhaps yours is missing something?
