Guest \(James Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 So my old laptop hard drive crashed. The CD rom does not work on this pc, but I would like to reinstall XP back onto it as I can't afford a new laptop. I do have the floppy drive and can boot from it. How do I create a network boot disk and install XP. I assume I can copy the 386 folder onto another pc and then network boot the laptop, just never done this before.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Re: How to load Windows XP - no cd rom "(James" <jamesrussell2832@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:fDMBi.110222$rX4.56477@pd7urf2no... > So my old laptop hard drive crashed. The CD rom does not work on this pc, > but I would like to reinstall XP back onto it as I can't afford a new > laptop. > > I do have the floppy drive and can boot from it. How do I create a > network boot disk and install XP. I assume I can copy the 386 folder onto > another pc and then network boot the laptop, just never done this before. Creating a network boot disk is a big task unless you're very experienced. Much easier to remove the disk from the laptop, put it inside an external USB case and do this: 1. Create a FAT32 partition of suitable size. 2. Copy the WinXP CD to this FAT32 partition. 3. Put the disk back into the laptop. 4. Boot the laptop with a Win98 boot diskette (http://www.bootdisk.com). 5. Run C:\i386\winnt.exe to install Windows. 6. When finished, convert drive C: to NTFS if desired.
Guest \(James Posted August 31, 2007 Posted August 31, 2007 Re: How to load Windows XP - no cd rom Thanks, I'll try this "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:eIbGOv56HHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > "(James" <jamesrussell2832@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:fDMBi.110222$rX4.56477@pd7urf2no... >> So my old laptop hard drive crashed. The CD rom does not work on this >> pc, but I would like to reinstall XP back onto it as I can't afford a new >> laptop. >> >> I do have the floppy drive and can boot from it. How do I create a >> network boot disk and install XP. I assume I can copy the 386 folder >> onto another pc and then network boot the laptop, just never done this >> before. > > Creating a network boot disk is a big task unless you're > very experienced. Much easier to remove the disk from > the laptop, put it inside an external USB case and do this: > > 1. Create a FAT32 partition of suitable size. > 2. Copy the WinXP CD to this FAT32 partition. > 3. Put the disk back into the laptop. > 4. Boot the laptop with a Win98 boot diskette > (http://www.bootdisk.com). > 5. Run C:\i386\winnt.exe to install Windows. > 6. When finished, convert drive C: to NTFS if desired. >
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