WinXP for IBM Thinkpad 240

[Ultra Kiasu]

Sorry for my ignorant, I had scour through the Google Groups posts for
solutions for Windows XP without bootable CDROM/Floppy. The results
were far from being comprehensive.

My old Thinkpad 240 Travelstar 12GB harddisk crashed, and I just
brought a new notebook harddisk. Saw this bundle sale for Windows XP
Home with Office XP at bargain price in my local IT mart.

I am keen in taking this offer to install the WinXP on this notebook,
but I had never really tried install WinXP without CDROM.

Can anyone direct me to a website or article with detailed walkthru on
the installation.

So far, I only read up on WinXP installation on Sony VAIO, and below is
what I know.

1) FORMAT as FAT32 in notebook harddisk on a WIN98SE platform with
system files.
2) Copy WIN98SE to C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS
3) Copy WINXP to C:\WINDOWS\I386
4) Install this notebook harddisk to the notebook, and root to C:\
prompt
5) Setup WIN98SE, no need to install drivers, just bare minimum.
6) Upon completion of WIN98SE installation, Click
C:\WINDOWS\I386\WINNT32.EXE
7) Select Full Upgrade.

The above procedures required 2 WINDOWS installations.

Now my question,

Is there a simplier approach?

Thanks

Regards,

Kevin

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Sorry for my ignorant, I had scour through the Google Groups posts for
solutions for Windows XP without bootable CDROM/Floppy. The results
were far from being comprehensive.

My old Thinkpad 240 Travelstar 12GB harddisk crashed, and I just
brought a new notebook harddisk. Saw this bundle sale for Windows XP
Home with Office XP at bargain price in my local IT mart.

I am keen in taking this offer to install the WinXP on this notebook,
but I had never really tried install WinXP without CDROM.

Can anyone direct me to a website or article with detailed walkthru on
the installation.

So far, I only read up on WinXP installation on Sony VAIO, and below is
what I know.

1) FORMAT as FAT32 in notebook harddisk on a WIN98SE platform with
system files.
2) Copy WIN98SE to C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS
3) Copy WINXP to C:\WINDOWS\I386
4) Install this notebook harddisk to the notebook, and root to C:\
prompt
5) Setup WIN98SE, no need to install drivers, just bare minimum.
6) Upon completion of WIN98SE installation, Click
C:\WINDOWS\I386\WINNT32.EXE
7) Select Full Upgrade.

The above procedures required 2 WINDOWS installations.

Now my question,

Is there a simplier approach?

Thanks

Regards,

Kevin

You can get away with one single Windows installation:
1. Format the notebook disk on a desktop as FAT32
and set that partition to "active".
2. Boot the desktop with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com).
3. Run these commands:
sys E: (if E: is the laptop disk drive letter)
copy a:smartdrv.exe e:\
4. Copy the WinXP CD to the laptop disk.
5. Install the laptop disk in the laptop, then reboot it.
6. Run these commands:
c:\smartdrv
c:\i386\winnt
7. When finished, convert drive C: to NTFS if you wish:
convert c: /fs:ntfs

 

[Ultra Kiasu]

You can get away with one single Windows installation:
1. Format the notebook disk on a desktop as FAT32
and set that partition to "active".
2. Boot the desktop with a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com).
3. Run these commands:
sys E: (if E: is the laptop disk drive letter)
copy a:smartdrv.exe e:\
4. Copy the WinXP CD to the laptop disk.
5. Install the laptop disk in the laptop, then reboot it.
6. Run these commands:
c:\smartdrv
c:\i386\winnt
7. When finished, convert drive C: to NTFS if you wish:
convert c: /fs:ntfs

C:\SMARTDRV will not execute without HIMEM.SYS loaded.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

C:\SMARTDRV will not execute without HIMEM.SYS loaded.

Indeed it won't - load himem.sys too! (You can do without smartdrv
but it will take much longer to install WinXP).