using a usb cdrom to upgrade to xp

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treelow

I have an old laptop that is running on Win 2000 and i want to upgrad
to XP but I have no floppy or cdrom drives with the exception of a us
cdrom drive that works fine for any other instals. When I load X
upgrade it happily goes through the motions then restarts and complain
that it cannot see a cdrom drive (ie D: ) and threofore cannot finnis
the instalation.
Can anyone tell me how to get it to see the usb cdrom drive at thi
point of instalation
 
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Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers

Hi,

It'd probably be easier to just copy the I386 folder from the CD to the hard
drive, then run setup from there (execute the winnt32.exe file).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 

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