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Install OS on new hard drive without media slice
I just got an LS400 with no hard drive (these come with no internal
optical/floppy drive). I have an extra new drive that I'd like to install. Unfortunately I have no appropriate external floppy or cd-rom drive. I do have, however, a hard drive enclosure that I've attached to my Evo running Windows XP. The hard drive's recognized and I can format it - assign a drive letter of E: or above - and partition it. Is there a website or faq on how to set up a new hard drive under this circumstance? I think I can make a small partition to hold the contents of my Windows 2000 Pro CD if I can somehow make this drive bootable and able to change drive letters. Any and all suggestions will be more than appreciated. |
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i would suggest that you partition and format the drive as a bootable disk
while it is in the external enclousure and then create a folder call i386 and copy the contents of your windows xp cd to that folder. then put this disk in the ls400 and once booted run c:\i386\setup.exe alternatively, get yoru hands on a usb cd drive and boot from that with the widows xp cd.. "wfromoz" wrote in message ... I just got an LS400 with no hard drive (these come with no internal optical/floppy drive). I have an extra new drive that I'd like to install. Unfortunately I have no appropriate external floppy or cd-rom drive. I do have, however, a hard drive enclosure that I've attached to my Evo running Windows XP. The hard drive's recognized and I can format it - assign a drive letter of E: or above - and partition it. Is there a website or faq on how to set up a new hard drive under this circumstance? I think I can make a small partition to hold the contents of my Windows 2000 Pro CD if I can somehow make this drive bootable and able to change drive letters. Any and all suggestions will be more than appreciated. |
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Install OS on new hard drive without media slice
On Jan 8, 5:03 pm, "Christopher Muto" wrote:
i would suggest that you partition and format the drive as a bootable disk while it is in the external enclousure and then create a folder call i386 and copy the contents of your windows xp cd to that folder. then put this disk in the ls400 and once booted run c:\i386\setup.exe alternatively, get yoru hands on a usb cd drive and boot from that with the widows xp cd.. "wfromoz" wrote in message ... I just got an LS400 with no hard drive (these come with no internal optical/floppy drive). I have an extra new drive that I'd like to install. Unfortunately I have no appropriate external floppy or cd-rom drive. I do have, however, a hard drive enclosure that I've attached to my Evo running Windows XP. The hard drive's recognized and I can format it - assign a drive letter of E: or above - and partition it. Is there a website or faq on how to set up a new hard drive under this circumstance? I think I can make a small partition to hold the contents of my Windows 2000 Pro CD if I can somehow make this drive bootable and able to change drive letters. Any and all suggestions will be more than appreciated. Thanks for the reply. The part that stumps me is formatting the drive as a bootable disk under Windows XP. The formatting part I understand, and I see how to make a partition active, but how do I make it bootable and able to recognize the 2nd partition with the setup files? |
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... On Jan 8, 5:03 pm, "Christopher Muto" wrote: i would suggest that you partition and format the drive as a bootable disk while it is in the external enclousure and then create a folder call i386 and copy the contents of your windows xp cd to that folder. then put this disk in the ls400 and once booted run c:\i386\setup.exe alternatively, get yoru hands on a usb cd drive and boot from that with the widows xp cd.. "wfromoz" wrote in message ... I just got an LS400 with no hard drive (these come with no internal optical/floppy drive). I have an extra new drive that I'd like to install. Unfortunately I have no appropriate external floppy or cd-rom drive. I do have, however, a hard drive enclosure that I've attached to my Evo running Windows XP. The hard drive's recognized and I can format it - assign a drive letter of E: or above - and partition it. Is there a website or faq on how to set up a new hard drive under this circumstance? I think I can make a small partition to hold the contents of my Windows 2000 Pro CD if I can somehow make this drive bootable and able to change drive letters. Any and all suggestions will be more than appreciated. Thanks for the reply. The part that stumps me is formatting the drive as a bootable disk under Windows XP. The formatting part I understand, and I see how to make a partition active, but how do I make it bootable and able to recognize the 2nd partition with the setup files? a simple way to accomplish this is to download/install the utility software from the manufacturer of your desktop internal hard disk, or the manufacturer of the temporary external (laptop internal hard disk). most manufactures disk utility software will not work unless one of their drives are present in a system. if one of your drives is seagate then get their software as it is the best. with this software installed you can partition/format and clone your desktop hard disk to the external hard disk to set up the external hard disk as the new primary hard drive. then make sure you have the windows xp cd copied to the \i386 folder on the external drive. this should make a bootable disk that you can put into the laptop. but don't expect the desktop installed copy of windows to work on the laptop. start the laptop in safe mode command prompt and delete (or just rename, you can delete them more easily through windows later if you are not familiar with dos command) the folder \windows and \program files. then run \i386\setup. hope that works... otherwise just get your hands on a usb cd drive so you can boot the laptop with the windows xp cd and install windows on the laptop drive that way. |
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