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Solve : How can I boot with floppy and get external usb cd to load xp? |
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Answer» Hello external cd drive is recognised but gives cdr103 not high sierra. That is an MSCDEX message. CDR103 : Disc in drive is not High Sierra. All CD-ROM discs on a DOS or Windows-based system need to be in High Sierra or ISO 9660 format. The message could therefore mean that the disk is: * an audio disc. * a disc configured for an Apple Macintosh. * a damaged or bad disk. Try another disk and see if it is readable. This may help... http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm cd should be ok as its my xp disk, all give the same. Site looks good spoiler, thanks. Just going to try a few, I may be sometime.Spoiler is right in that you need to load drivers on your floppy to recognise the CDRom drive. Reason: Older computer bios's were not USB ready. First choice: Look for information that came with your USB drive, or from their website for instructions to create a bootable floppy with the cdrom drivers. Second choice: Use information from Spoiler's site to create a bootable floppy with drivers for your USB CDRom drive. That should get you to the point of recognizing the disk. But, ... I doubt that you will be able to use the CD in the USB drive to load XP normally. The reason you will probably have trouble is this: During setup, Windows need to reboot one or more times. When you reboot, it will be without the drivers on the floppy, thus no cdrom will be present. (Bad News! ) You will need to get the XP setup files on the HD and setup from there. Here is the way I would go: 1. Boot with floppy & CDRom drivers. 2. Copy I386 folder from CDRom to your hard drive. Command line: Code: [Select]xcopy /s /e /v D:\I386\*.* C:\I386\ (Assumes that cdrom is drive D: & that you have xcopy.exe on your floppy.) 3. Remove CDRom from drive. You won't need it again. 4. Run winnt.exe Command line: Code: [Select]C:\I386\WINNT.EXE /S:C:I386 /T:C:TEMPDRV5. Setup will proceed normally! The /S switch specifies the source location of the setup files. The /T switch specifies the location for the temp files during setup. If you want a complete list of the switches for winnt.exe that will explain the command line above, type C:\I386\WINNT.EXE /? Edited: Note: I added the switches /s /e /v to the xcopy command. (I forgot the first time.) It will take 20 minutes or so to copy the I386 folder & sub folder to the HD, but you will save most of that time during setup, which will go much faster than it does from the CDRom. Most interesting IImeyer2000, havent heard of winnt.exe before. It will probably be easier if I copy i386 directory from the cd to the dells hdd, but on another pc with a cd drive then return it and do as you recomend.Quote from: number7 on June 10, 2008, 04:18:48 AM Most interesting IImeyer2000, havent heard of winnt.exe before. It will probably be easier if I copy i386 directory from the cd to the dells hdd, but on another pc with a cd drive then return it and do as you recomend.That will work even better. Windows will copy the folder & sub-folder at least twice as fast. Don't feel bad about not KNOWING about winnt.exe. I suspect that a large majority are in the same boat. The only time you really need to know about this is when installing on an older computer. Note this quote: Quote A Win98 boot disk ... can be used to install these OS's. (Windows 2000 and XP)I found that quote on this site: Clean Install Windows XP I just ran across this, which I forgot to mention, on the same site: Quote smartdrv.exe must be added and loaded manually before running WINNT.EXEIf I remember correctly, You will get an error telling you to load smartdrv first if you try to run winnt without it. When you are done with the installation, you can delete the I386 folder if you need the space, but, if you don't, just leave it there. (It's like having the CD in the drive permanently) Edit: I just ran across another site that explains winnt.exe & lists a lot more switches than I was familiar with. I don't think you will need anything more than I what I posted before, (I have used the command line as posted a number of times, and it works very well as is.) but if you want to be informed, here it is: Installation of Windows XP PS: Divide my name by 2. Thanks.That seems to work fine. Setup started and said couldnt find smartdrv on the computer did I want to exit or continue. I did load smartdrv in the config.sys of the boot floppy. Its still loading so thats brilliant, thanks Im realy impressed after all these years. |
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