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Installing XP from a mapped CD drive

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marty9876

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Think this is possible? I have a Sony Vaio with no CD rom or floppy drive, 98 currently loaded on the box.

Thanks
Marty
 
I wouldn't ever trust a machine that was upgraded from the 9x kernel to XP......and your also not going to have anyway of booting to it. Time to get an external CD drive if your PC can boot from it.
 
I agree with DJines, but it should be possible. I've installed lots of software using mapped drives, including Office XP, yada yada. Never done windows though, so I can't say for sure.
 
Load DOS and Windows for Workgroups on it. Then connect to a shared directory, copy the I386 folder down, reboot with a boot disk and run setup.
Nothing to it. :cool:
 
marty9876 said:
Think this is possible? I have a Sony Vaio with no CD rom or floppy drive, 98 currently loaded on the box.

Thanks
Marty
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External USB CD drive anyone? Not sure if you can boot to it, though *scratches head*, hmm... USB floppy would solve that, if it were a problem.

Do not upgrade OS, all OS installs should be 'clean' not an upgrade.
 
Thanks guys. The tricky part was no CD/Floppy. Well I found the CD drive at work....so all is well.

61 minutes to install per the XP installer, ouch. I really shoudl wait for the huge memory upgrade I ordered (64+64, whopping 128 meg)

But man, these things are so small. The benchmarks are inline with this age of computer gear, HD transfer at a whopping 11m/s.


Marty
 
S1nF1xx said:
I was being just *a little* sarcastic. ;)
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Don't worry, no one took you seriously. ;)

marty9876, We have a couple of those... We wound up ripping out the HDD (not easy on those bastards), and loading our custom image from a desktop via a laptop->ide converter on a desktop machine. :D
 
Yea I might have to rip ou tthe HD, the install crapped out, can't seem to boot from CD drive. Can boot from floppy but thats about it. No viable OS currently on the drive, no boot.

Yikes..... what a mess

Marty
 
OK, I just remembered what the guy that was working on the last one told me... It wasn't a standard 2.5" laptop HDD. I never saw it, but be aware it could be different than what your used to seeing.

If it is a normal laptop drive you will need one of these and you can mount the drive into a standard desktop system. Very handy converter to have if you work on laptops much.
 
I'm thinkign it might not be, a 2.5 drive would not fit in this tiny thing.

I've got adapter. Think I need to make up a boot dick (floppy) with pcmcia cd drivers, if one exists.
 
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