Install Xp pro for Primary HD??

[BioSs]

Ok, i'm trying to install Win Xp prof from Primary HD on my Toshiba lappy due to my lappy's dvd drive broken. Here's what i did, i copied all files from Win xp prof CD to a blank format lappy HD, then i install lappy HD back to the lappy. Now, it can't boot to Xp installation. All it indicate no NTLD file. I'm wonding why i can boot winxp from Desktop HD, but not on lappy HD?

 

[imported_Phil]

Because the laptop hard disk isn't bootable. All it contains are the Windows Setup files.

It can be done without a CD-ROM drive at all, but it's highly recommended that you get the DVD drive replaced.

Here's one way of doing it:

With the laptop hard disk connected to a machine that has a working CD drive, copy the entire contents of the i386 folder from the CD to a folder on the hard disk called i386. Now, reboot the machine, and start installing Windows on the laptop hard disk (by booting from the Windows XP CD).

When Setup reaches the end of the first part of Setup (blue, text-mode part), it'll reboot the machine. Immediately power-off and remove the laptop disk, and put this back into the laptop. Setup should now resume in graphical-mode, and it should be okay.

If you get asked for the Windows CD during installation, enter "c:\i386" as the location for the Setup files (you can type it in), and it should go through.

Good luck!

 

[BioSs]

That's another good method, but i tried and it gave me a BLUE SCREEN. Maybe i have find a Laptop or PC which similar to my laptop's chipset. Otherwise, i can't boot. Correct me if i wrong

Originally posted by: Phil

With the laptop hard disk connected to a machine that has a working CD drive, copy the entire contents of the i386 folder from the CD to a folder on the hard disk called i386. Now, reboot the machine, and start installing Windows on the laptop hard disk (by booting from the Windows XP CD).

When Setup reaches the end of the first part of Setup (blue, text-mode part), it'll reboot the machine. Immediately power-off and remove the laptop disk, and put this back into the laptop. Setup should now resume in graphical-mode, and it should be okay.

If you get asked for the Windows CD during installation, enter "c:\i386" as the location for the Setup files (you can type it in), and it should go through.

Good luck!

 

[casper114]

How did you go about copying all the files from the desktop to the laptop, were you not able to install windows the same way instead of copying the files?

 

[BioSs]

Hehe... do you know we have a device call External USB case? Just connect the laptop HD in the case and USB to any PC you like.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: BioSs
That's another good method, but i tried and it gave me a BLUE SCREEN. Maybe i have find a Laptop or PC which similar to my laptop's chipset. Otherwise, i can't boot. Correct me if i wrong

Well, the reason I said to shutdown and transfer immediately after the first reboot, is because until then, Windows hasn't started to install the hardware.

You did shutdown the instant the text-mode portion of Setup finished, yeah?

There's another way to do this, a way that I found with a laptop that only has a USB CD-ROM drive (four hours... :|).

Get a Windows 98 boot floppy from http://www.bootdisk.com.
Boot from this, and then hammer the F8 key when it's booting to get the startup menu. Choose Safe Mode Command Prompt.

copy a:\*.* c:
sys c:

That'll copy the 98 startup floppy to your C: drive and make it bootable. Reboot, boot from the hard disk and do the F8 thing again to get you into a Safe Mode Command Prompt.

smartdrv (this won't produce any output on the screen but will make disk transfers a LOT faster)
cd c:\i386
winnt.exe

Go through Setup, and that should be that.

Hope this helps

 

[BioSs]

Well, the reason I said to shutdown and transfer immediately after the first reboot, is because until then, Windows hasn't started to install the hardware.

You did shutdown the instant the text-mode portion of Setup finished, yeah?

Ok, I boot from WinXp Cd on a 600mhz intel laptop, and i let it copy all files on text-mode portion. After it finished and it reboot. And then, i transfer the HD to my Centino 1.4Ghz laptop. I think because the chipset, cpu and bus speed different. It gave me a BLUE SCREEN when i tried to boot from my Centino laptop.

There's another way to do this, a way that I found with a laptop that only has a USB CD-ROM drive (four hours... :|).

I wish my centino laptop's bios has this setting.

Get a Windows 98 boot floppy from http://www.bootdisk.com.

Hope this helps

I wish my centino has floppy drive. Even i buy an External floppy drive, the bios don't has boot from external floopy setup.

 

[nweaver]

another way is to use PXE boot. Altiris is what I use, You can download a free trial. It's a bit rough on the setup sometimes, but you could do an automated network install, then after you have it tweaked, make an executable image file so that all you have to do is PXE boot and run the image.exe to restore.

 

[BioSs]

I get internal floopy and i d/l the boot disk from bootdisk.com and somehow it can't detect my HD after boot in Doc mode. Isn't HD need to be in FAT32 for WinME or Win98 to detect it.