Comments on: Harddrive Windows XP installation – no floppy/CD drive

By: Sandy Riyadi Susiharto

Sandy Riyadi Susiharto — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:41:20 +0000

can not creat “WINDOWS” folder during instalation, why ???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:39:00 +0000

That was funky watching it install from the hard drive! I just wonder how many people chose to format the hard disk during XP Setup! I didn’t in case you were wondering, I left the file system intact and it installed fine. Well that is to say everything barring the trackpad and mouse buttons. Also the style loaded in classic mode. Still sure that can be done easily enough. I didn’t copy the i386 with the ‘xcopy’ command so it’s either that or the pad is shaggered!
Another point worth mentioning is to make sure that your mobo has 2 IDE controllers, mine did not and 3.5 – 2.5 IDE adapters come fitted with only one drive connector. Still, booted the sprog off Moshi-Monsters and cannabalized his to finish the job!
Thank’s for the good info, although this is elsewhere almost word for word so don’t know if your origional authour or not. At least you can spell though, unlike I!
Cheers.

By: capotts0710

capotts0710 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:21:00 +0000

when doing the install xp halts and says missing file asms and the file is not on the hard drive

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:33:00 +0000

I’m a third person with the same problem.

i386 copied ok but running Winnt prompts the setup to copy some files to disk then reboot. After reboot, all that’s displayed is :Operating System Missing”, the Setup GUI does not load.

By: kkk

kkk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:37:00 +0000

No it’s not.
i have exactly the same error.