Installing OS from HD??

[Hawkeye4242]

After nearly two decades of running pirated OS's, I finally went out and bought XP Professional. My first legit OS is also the first one that won't install. When I try and look at the CD in drive G:, it says "volume has no label". It starts to auto-run the install, then it either locks up or gives me the blue "stop screen, restart your computer" screen. I think what I need to do is install from the HD instead of the CD. Can someone PLEASE help me with this one. I finally got my XP1700/KTA3+/PC2700/Geforce4/SB Audigy hardware going and now I get no love from the OS....

 

[Cooler666]

After nearly two decades of running pirated OS's, I finally went out and bought XP Professional.

lol...try copying the Win directory to your harddisk and then installing it from there. Are you sure this is not a hardware problem? have you managed to install Windows 2000 for instance?
Do a clean install by booting of the cd.

 

[Hawkeye4242]

That is what I need to know...what is the DOS command for copying files from CD to HD.... I think it's "XCOPY G:\Win [C:\]" but I'm not sure, it's been so freaking long since I had to copy files in DOS. Like I said, I'm not sure if that will work since when I try and run a "G:\dir" I get a message that says "volume in drive G has no label" If I put another CD in the drive and run the dir, it shows it the directory list to me. Thanks to anyone that can help with this, I'm twitching to run MOHAA as soon as I get this installed.

 

[cw823]

boot from CD

 

[o770]

be sure your CD is not corrupted or defective. now youve paied so much for the OS i think you should just check this, dont you have another computer available to test this?
also, if your machine can boot from the CD, that will make things a lot easier in fact.

 

[Hawkeye4242]

When you say boot from CD, do you mean to make a change in my BIOS settings and tell the MB to boot from the CD drive? I've tried just putting the cd in the drive and firing it up, but that is where I run in to the installation errors....BTW this is a freshly partitioned and formatted HD. I'll check the CD if it won't copy to the C: drive or install from the C: drive

 

[o770]

exactly. you need to enter the BIOS first and set your CD-ROM to be the first boot device, the hard disk must be the second source. then you just insert the XP cd into the drive and watch. youll have the option to format or creating partitions from the XP boot itself.

 

[Mhypertext]

u know xp does not use a fat32 partion right ?

so say u have a drive with xp on it and u bring up the pormt in dos likc C:\ it will not recognize xp there is not dos support for xp

 

[Mhypertext]

u know xp does not use a fat32 partion right ?

 

[cw823]

u know xp does not use a fat32 partion right ?

so say u have a drive with xp on it and u bring up the pormt in dos likc C:\ it will not recognize xp there is not dos support for xp

Have you ever used xp?

 

[cw823]

u know xp does not use a fat32 partion right ?

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