Netbook came with XP Home, need XP Pro to join AD domain

[Minerva]

There is no optical drive.

What's the easiest way to do this?

 

[Atara]

I'd say flash drive, lots of tutorials on doing it if you google.

 

[Zargon]

usb external optical or build an iso that go on a flash drive

 

[xSauronx]

cant you upgrade from xp home without booting from the disc? i cant remember...if so, share an optical drive over the network

 

[RaiderJ]

You might have some options if you don't mind making a few changes to your OS, depending on what you need to do when attached to a domain:

http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=6868

 

[Chapbass]

Usb optical drive, flash drive, pull the hard drive and install it on another machine (not recommended), Windows Deployment Services/Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (if your company has one).

You have some options still. 🙂

 

[Minerva]

Found a program called Novicorp win 2 flash. Easy as pie! Just put the program cd or dvd in drive and plug in flash drive and it makes a bootable flash drive in minutes! 🙂

 

[Chiropteran]

If you are going to the trouble of buying and loading a new os, why not try Win 7 Pro?

 

[Minerva]

If you are going to the trouble of buying and loading a new os, why not try Win 7 Pro?

The person using this wants XP. Win7 is good (I use it personally) but anything less than a decent dual core with 4GB RAM and a SSD is going to be too slow. 😛

Netbooks are very very anemic as it is. I'd run 2000 on them if they had drivers.

 

[xSauronx]

The person using this wants XP. Win7 is good (I use it personally) but anything less than a decent dual core with 4GB RAM and a SSD is going to be too slow. 😛

🙄

 

[MadScientist]

I run Win 7 Ultimate 32bit on my Dell mini 10v and 1012. Upgraded both to 2GB ram. They run fine, better than with XP Pro they came with. Just copy all the Win 7 files from the disk to a flash drive and boot from it. No need to use any other software to make it bootable. You will need Novicorp win 2 flash to make a bootable XP Pro flash drive. Nice little program and easy to use.

 

[Minerva]

🙄

Roll your eyes all you want but shit is so bloated today it's absolutely ridiculous. At least 7 does not grind the hell out of your HDD like Vista did.

It should not take gflops and gigs of ram just for an OS. Utterly ridiculous how slacking programmers are today.