Comments on: Windows XP: Installing from Harddrive

By: Fernando dos santos quaresma

Fernando dos santos quaresma — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:51:09 +0000

plus the best form to install the xp trough hdd is to copy the MBR and boot.ini from a eepc or (in portugal) magalhaes , they come already prepared to re-install the xp , the command lines are just enought the only thing is that you must slipstream the drivers to yours xp cd installation.

the best method though

By: Fernando dos santos quaresma

Fernando dos santos quaresma — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:41:28 +0000

well creating the First partition to sustain the 98 boot can we have in sam epartition but in diferent folder the winXP install files?
i.e.

c:\ smrtdrv
|_FolderXP/
|
|_ xp install files

would this commit some install errors o it will work just fine , is it recomended to use the first partition in FAT file sistem? because i read other tuts and they advice to do that .

what do you thinnk about it ?

By: Bill Wilkison

Bill Wilkison — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:10:00 +0000

I’ve got a trojan virus that has put a lot of crap in my Window’s registry – of course, its a bogus way for somebody to supply me with removal software for this registry crap that they, themselves, installed on my computer (without my permission).

So, I want to format the hard drive and reinstall Windows XP, (current version has service pac 3, I think) and my Dell Laditude is one that came not with the OS on a disk, but on a D partition of the hard drive.

Question is …….. once I’ve formatted the disk (C only), how do I reinstall OS from partition D?

By: Dj

Dj — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:59:00 +0000

what in this case where u dont hae a floppy disk? would you copy the win98 SE on the Hard drive to boot??

By: anoop

anoop — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:19:00 +0000

i want to install windows xp while windows7 is running in d drive&also in c drive the setup of xp is in my e drive how i install

By: Dr-Hax-killed-Chuckles

Dr-Hax-killed-Chuckles — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:48:00 +0000

William, your PC is freezing because dos cannot be used to install an os if dos itself is installed to the hd. It happened to me too with 98. I had to make a special install cd to install entirely from my cd drive. I used magiciso to make a bootable disk that booted a windows me boot floppy, or in this case, a vfd (virtual floppy disk) image file, in which I ran 98 setup and installed 98 on my computer. This method may or may not work with xp. MagicISO is pay for. I just found a code online.Mainly because I used to make custom boot disks with it. Again, you MUST use a dos floppy. DOS won’t install ANY OS if DOS is installed to the hd. My guess for the reason it can’t find the files is because it deletes them after. I hope I could help.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:47:00 +0000

when i instal from my D-Drive..its start but after some moment an error occur….

“Eula is not found ”
it is quite well when i instal the xp from cd…

why?

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:35:00 +0000

The guide helped me do a XP install;) Just after the dos part i had to run fdisk from the fdd to make the partition active;)Before that pc started with no operation system ;) Thanks mate anyway

By: ijstyles

ijstyles — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:57:00 +0000

Worked like charm in my pc though I have to do a lot of troubleshooting. Thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000

You Have to SET your HDD to 2 or more Partition…
You’ll also need to set the Active Partition of MS-DOS OS… from the F-disk Menu
I set it to C:
and put my WinXp Installation Files on D: